APPLICANTS MUST ENTER AN FTDNA TESTED Y-HAPLOGROUP INTO THEIR JOIN REQUEST. Please read this before sending a Join request. This project was created to find a common ancestors among those who believe they have an Anglo-Saxon heritage or those who live or have ancestry in the lands once occupied by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians and Franks. The current Project Administrators are Professor, Dr David Coldwell and Vincent Jennings. Applicants please note that only males possess Y-DNA. You may gain entry if you are the kit owner or a manager of a Y-DNA kit satisfying the following criteria: 1. 'Anglo Saxon' implies the people from England, Lowland Scotland and from the ancestral Germanic locations in modern North West Europe (Denmark, Germany, Frisia and The Netherlands), So you should be able to trace your Paternal ancestry or surname to these regions, your Y-Haplogroup may also indicate your Paternal ancestry comes from these regions. 2. You Must provide your known FTDNA tested Y-DNA HAPLOGROUP and if known some detail of your Paternal ancestry, Names, Dates, Region etc. Females are able to join if they manage a Y-DNA kit. PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR FTDNA TESTED Y-DNA HAPLOGROUP IN YOUR JOIN REQUEST. Applications with a simple surname and no other contextual detail will be immediately dismissed. Surnames as we use them today were not used within Anglo-Saxon society (or in early Medieval Germanic continental societies). England didn't start using Surnames in the modern sense until the mid to late Middle Ages, many years after the Anglo-Saxon Period.