The Coate, Coates, Coats/Cotes Surname Project uses today's science to connect current cousins to help sort out the past! If you are just beginning your research of the Coate, Coates, Coats family, then start with either the Y-DNA test if you are male or the Family Finder test if you are female or male to help discover your Coat/e/s cousins and your common ancestors. Y-DNA will match you to the same DNA your father's father's father's side back to the beginning of time. You may contact Linda Coate, admin. about our Y-DNA project. Her email address is ancestrees@gmail.com. The Family Finder test is available to both males and females as both inherit chromosomes from each of our parents. This test helps find cousin matches reliably back 6 generations and less reliably beyond that. Our Family Finder Project is in its infancy. We are starting to identify autosomal segments for our Coat/e/s ancestors from this Family Finder project. Veronica Williams, Co. Admin. heads up this part of our collective. Her email address is coatdna@gmail.com. You may also join the Coat/e/s Surname Project if: 1. You are a male or female paying for a male with a surname variation of Coates for a Y-DNA or Family Finder test. 2. You are adopted and have Y-DNA that is matching one or more Coates at the 37 point level or greater. Where do you fit into the Coates family? For our project, go to: http://www.ancestrees.com/dnalinkpage.html For our Y-DNA project, view: http://www.ancestrees.com/family.html For our Family Finder project, view: http://www.ancestrees.com/FamilyFinderDNAMemberPage.html