I am Chris Meek, age 62 and retired. I have been involved with genealogy for over 35 years. I am the administrator of the Meek surname project and co-administrator of the U198 haplogroup project. Despite my involvement with the haplogroup project my interests are primarily with family research within genealogical time frames. In a message dated 7/24/2008 7:39:58 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: OK folks. Don't let me dominate the conversation here. The list now has over 50 subscribers, so I'm asking for our first roll call. Don't feel you have to join in, but you are certainly welcome to do so. A "roll call" consists of briefly introducing yourself, giving your main research interests or, in the case of this list, the projects you either administer or are a member of, and your most pressing question or most important goal. Whatever you think the list would like to know about you with regard to your participation in Y-DNA surname projects. I'll start with moi... I'm retired, and my hobby/passion/obsession is genealogy. I run six DNA projects: one regional project (Danish Demes) and five surname projects: BIDDLE, CARRICO, CORBIN, RASEY, and STRAUB, the oldest of which just turned four years old. My biggest personal success, so far, is "crossing the pond" with my STRAUB ancestry (my mother was a STRAUB). My biggest remaining goals are to "cross the pond" with my CARRICO, CORBIN, and RASEY lines, and to resolve the NPE in the BIDDLE project, which I'm actually working on for someone else. My biggest problem is lack of time. I've always needed a 30-hour day, but I never dreamt that when I retired, I'd still need one. My own DNA projects seem to be running smoothly, though new members never come in as quickly as you would want. If I won the lottery, I'd spend it on DNA testing! In addition to web pages for each of my projects, I have a large genealogy web site that is the other black hole for my time: http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/GenealogyHome.shtml Diana ------------------------------- The topic of this list is Y-DNA *surname* projects. Discussion of geographic, haplogroup, or mtDNA projects is off topic for this list. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020)