Getting people signed up for the project and and buying/upgrading tests

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I might have hopped on board the upgrade idea a few days late. I'm seeing the $229 upgrade from Y-111 to Big y-700. Was it better a few days ago, or is that as good as it has been?

[dbeezley]

One more thing... When I see YDNA matches in the project, the best I can do is to send an email to the email address listed with the name in the match. To often, I don't get a response and I wonder why. Did they even get the email? Has something changed? Can FTDNA do more to encourage and support people...

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This has been a continuous grumble for me. Just when I think I know what to do something changes and I'm lost.

I'm very active with the Beasley YDNA Project. I can never get enough Y tests aboard to make me satisfied. I'm picky, though, about getting men with the surname or variant or closely...

[dbeezley]

What are you referring to... "activity feed"? Do you have an example to link?

[dbeezley]

And, that's not all. The next project is the Yellow Group. We have four Yellow Group lineages originating in England. One where the tested descendant lives in England, one where the EKA moved to Nova Scotia where the tested descendant resides, one where the EKA was born in England in about 1650 and...

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Blue Group, of which I'm a member has an unknown EKA born perhaps about 1650 in England. The next generation consists of two men, probably brothers who were born in the 1680 and lived in the early 1700s in Baltimore, MD. Descendants of one of them (William) went from MD to Northern Viginia to Southern...

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I have been admin of the Beasley YDNA Project since 2008. I take great pride in my work and enjoy discussing these matters with other whose eyes don't glaze over when I start talking about DNA. Nevertheless, I have only recently discovered this Forum. Well, that's embarrassing. Anyhow, here I am and...

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As far as I can see, the "grouping" charts aren't very useful for SNPs. Even for STRs, some surnames come from so many different places and are so complicated with NPE's that groupings can look pretty messy. Many I've seen look rather random and not very useful. In the Beasley study I administer,...

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As far as someone who has an interest in the surname... I have many people apply because they have an interest in the surname. Often they don't even have a test, so joining does nothing at all. If you do have a YDNA test it does nothing but cluttering up the chart with meaningless information. And,...

[dbeezley]

I'm not sure what you mean by "the activity feed". Aside from being an administrator, the only thing that anyone can see, member or not, is on the Project's public page. If you aren't a member of the projec, you can see and contact anyone who matches you on any test through your own profile....

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This topic is more than a year old, but I'm going to risk stirring up controversy by expressing a different point of view. My colleague took over the Beasley Project that had been moribund for some time. He did a marvelous job recruiting YDNA tests and I joined him as admin shortly after. Over time,...

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I'm working on some basic genealogical DNA information (YDNA) with examples specific to our surname study. I want to be sure I'm using terms and concepts correctly.

The definition of Haplotype in the FTDNA glossary is:

Haplotype - A haplotype is the set of values for a set of DNA values.

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[dbeezley]

I noticed in the list of surname projects at FTDNA a number of them are identified with a "Guild" logo. I assume that means the project is registered with the Guild of One-Name Studies. How do I get that designation on the Beasley DNA Project:

http://one-name.org/name_profi...