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From: "ljcrain" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Surname Projects December 2004
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 17:19:20 -0600
References: <002901c4efc3$e9e55ac0$80995c18@YOURF8387228BF>


>It seems like people are opening these
> projects with no real plan in mind to gather members.


We had a participant to leave the CRAIN group and join a new group of ONE!
He had already been tested and received the group discount. Why does FTDNA
allow that?

Janet Crain


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Goff" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Surname Projects December 2004


> About a month ago I noticed the count of "G" surname projects rocketed
from
> about 70 to over 100 in a very short time. This followed a very slow
> increase of maybe one or two "G" surname projects in the prior couple of
> months. I scanned through the list and concluded that most of the
additions
> were these projects with no members. It seems like people are opening
these
> projects with no real plan in mind to gather members.
>
> Phil Goff
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 11:43 PM
> Subject: [DNA] Surname Projects December 2004
>
>
> > Today, December 31, I visited FTDNA's Projects page and copied into a
> > spreadsheet all the names of the surname projects along with the number
of
> > participants. I then sorted them in order from the largest to the
> > smallest. I have
> > listed below, in order, the surname projects at FTDNA with over 50
> > participants. The top five stayed the same.
> >
> > I did the same thing in June and September, so I've included a small
chart
> > showing how things have grown.
> >
> > Note - As I was preparing this list, FTDNA sent out their Facts &
Genes
> > newsletter to their project administrators. They mentioned they had over
> > 1400
> > surname projects. My total was 1888, which came from adding up all the
> > surname
> > projects listed on their website. I also noticed there was a large
number
> > of
> > projects with zero participants - almost 600. Upon further
investigation
> > I
> > found most of those zero participate projects were linked back to
> > worldfamilies.net which said "No Projects listed". Apparently
> > Worldfamilies has some kind
> > of agreement with FTDNA to have "potential" projects listed. (Is that
> > correct
> > Terry?). Anyway my 1888 number is probably meaningless.
> >
> > Bill Davenport
> >>
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > FTDNA Totals - 2004
> > ---------------------------- ----June 22 ----- Sept 25 ---------- Dec 31
> > ------
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Total participants ------- 15643 -------- 17810 --------- 20606
> > Total in Proj. of 50+ --- 5045 --------- 6298 --------- 7233
> > # of projects ------------- 991 --------- 1272 --------- 1888
> > # of 50+ projects ------ 63 ---------- 79 --------- 87
> > # of 100+ projects ---- 14 ---------- 17 --------- 19
> > Average/Project ------- 16 ----------- 14 ---------- 16
> > (without all the zeros)
> > Median -------------------- 8 ---------- 7 ----------
> > 8
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> > --------
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------
> > 233__Walker
> > 214__Rose
> > 202__Donald Usa
> > 185__Graves
> > 173__Bolling
> > 144__Bassett
> > 137__Johnson
> > 136__Brown Browne Braun
> > 130__Rice
> > 128__Turner
> > 127__Bates
> > 127__Meates
> > 126__MacGregor
> > 123__Hill
> > 121__Spencer
> > 116__Baker
> > 107__Williams
> > 106__Hull
> > 104__Crow
> > 99__Cooper
> > 92__Maxwell
> > 90__Donnachaidh
> > 90__Sanchez
> > 89__May
> > 89__Stewart
> > 87__Elliott & Border Rei
> > 85__Blair
> > 85__Boone
> > 82__Smith-Southern Us
> > 81__Jordan
> > 77__Campbell
> > 77__Hamilton
> > 77__Shelton
> > 76__Carter
> > 75__Chamberlain
> > 71__Kinney
> > 69__Carpenter
> > 69__Davis
> > 69__Harris
> > 69__Hollingsworth
> > 69__Luria
> > 69__Roper
> > 69__Webb
> > 69__Wilson
> > 69__Wright
> > 68__Beal
> > 68__Beatty
> > 68__Hooper
> > 68__Moore-Worldwide
> > 67__Kincaid
> > 67__Pennington
> > 66__Mumma
> > 65__Mock
> > 62__Gann
> > 61__Blanchard
> > 61__Couch
> > 61__Freeman
> > 61__Glennon
> > 61__Randolph
> > 60__Davenport
> > 60__Everett
> > 60__Perkins
> > 60__Shirley
> > 58__Clark
> > 58__Drake
> > 58__Payne
> > 57__Dooley
> > 57__Gordon
> > 57__Hite-Hoyt
> > 57__Price
> > 56__Barnes
> > 56__Daniel
> > 56__Mills
> > 56__Page
> > 55__Dalton, Int'L
> > 55__Martin
> > 55__Mitchell
> > 53__Cook
> > 53__Sizemore
> > 52__Allison
> > 52__Dodge
> > 52__Rains
> > 52__Townsend
> > 51__Hatcher
> > 51__Sisson
> > 50__Bartlett
> > 50__Bond
> >
> >
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