LOL! Yes, we are probably preaching to the choir here. Most sadly, though, the members of these projects probably have no idea how much *less* they're getting out of their testing than they might have, simply because their project admin is on some kind of power trip. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] On Behalf Of David Weston > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Y-DNA-projects] sharing of results - rant warning > > Diana, > > To contribute to your rant, this is why it is critical that > all our surname project participants be > strongly encouraged to upload all their YDNA results to > YSearch and YBase, and to set their personal > pages to display matches against the entire company databases > not just their surname project. Doing > so greatly aids those of trying to get through NPEs or > looking for info on other ancestral lines. I > regularly check YSearch to see if some one on one of my other > ancestral lines has tested, and I have > found one by doing so. > > Admins also have to get themselves out of their mindset that > it is "their" data. It's not. It's > the participants and the participant should be the one who > decides who gets to see it our not. > Admins who behave otherwise do themselves and their > participants a great disservice. > > But then again Admins who are overly controlling of their > participants YDNA are likely not on this > list because that would require being open minded. :-) > > David. >