Within ten minutes of posting the story, I got an update from Kris Lichter at IBM. Kris is program director for the Genographic Project at IBM’s Healthcare and Life Science Solutions group. The genographic project hit 100,000 kits purchased by the public on December 18th. Kris, says "That was our five year goal, and it was achieved in eight months". Kris also says that he is humbled but he should be justifiably proud. I heard his enthusiastic and convincing presentation at the Supernova Conference last June. Kris’s motto is "Join the Genographic Project and help unlock the history book in all of us". It is worth taking a look at IBM’s genographic page, where there is some good video and podcasted content.

• The Genographic Project
• IBM press release about the Genographic Project
• Other resources about genographics