This project is for mitochondrial DNA only. You inherit your mitochondrial DNA from your mother, and she from her mother, so this project focuses only on the maternal lines of the Cumberland Gap area only. If your yline (paternal line) DNA is from the Cumberland Gap, please join the Cumberland Gap Yline project. The focus of this project is to reconnect the various families whose ancestors settled in the counties surrounding the Cumberland Gap. Please join if either your direct female maternal ancestoral line (your mother, her mother, her mother, up the tree) is associated with Claiborne, Hancock and Hawkins Co., in Tn., Lee, Russell or Scott Counties in Virginia, or Bell or Harlan Counties in Kentucky. Male lines are relatively easy to track as the last names don't change. However, we lose so many females lines due to marriages and last name changes. They are much more difficult to identify, especially when combined with the lack of traditional genealogical records. Therefore, the special focus of this project is to connect our female ancestors through their mitochondrial DNA.

This project is for Y-line (paternal) DNA only. A companion project, the Cumberland Gap mtdna project focuses on the mitochondrial (maternal) DNA lines. View mtDNA here: http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Cumberlandgap%2Dmtdna/ The focus of this project is to connect the various familys whose ancestors settled in or passed through the counties surrounding the Cumberland Gap. Please join if either your direct male ancestoral line (paternal only - the line of your last name) is associated with Claiborne, Hancock and Hawkins Co., in Tn., Lee, Russell or Scott Counties in Virginia, or Bell or Harlan Counties in Kentucky. Please join the Cumberland Gap DNA and Genealogy Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2409187872743532/

***PLEASE READ FIRST*** The Devon DNA project is a Y-DNA and mtDNA geographical project for everyone with a direct paternal or maternal ancestral line originating in the English county of Devon. The only requirement for joining the project is that PARTICIPANTS MUST HAVE A DOCUMENTED PAPER TRAIL TO DEVON on the direct paternal line for the Y-DNA test or on the direct maternal line for the mtDNA test. There will be no exceptions. The project is also collecting Family Finder results. For the Family Finder test you should be able to document a link with Devon in the last five generations. IMPORTANT. If you want help with your results please ensure that you choose LIMITED ACCESS for the Devon Project. See:</br> <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/project-administration/group-administrator-access-levels-and-permissions/">https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/project-administration/group-administrator-access-levels-and-permissions/</a></br> Please note that the project is not able to accept deep-rooted lines from America where the only connection with Devon is in the 1500s or 1600s. These pedigrees are prone to error and are very difficult to verify. There is also the possibility of a non-paternal event leading to the introduction of non-Devon DNA. If your surname is from an American line please find someone from an English line of more recent origin to represent the surname on your behalf.

The HARRIS surname DNA study is an ongoing project open to any male descendant with the HARRIS surname or variant spellings (Aris, Arras, Haris, Harries, Harris, Harriss, Harry, Harrys, Heriz, Herrice, Herries, Herry, etc.). Family Finder submitters who have Harris ancestors are also welcome to join.<br><br> The Harris Welcome Page is found here (which also includes links to individual pages that map out lineages of the various Harris groupings that have been charted):<br><br> <a href="https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/Harris_Surname_DNA_Project">WELCOME TO THE HARRIS Y-DNA PROJECT</a><br><br> Our objective is to match up individuals or families who share a common male ancestor with the Harris surname. Current participants' Y-DNA results can be viewed at the FTDNA Harris Y-DNA Overview page (with accompanying outlines of each Harris Group via the DNA Results link on the left of this page or directly below):<br><br> <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/public/harris-ydna?iframe=ydna-results-overview">Y-DNA Results Overview</a><br><br> To keep updated on the Harris Y-DNA project, you can join the mail list HARRIS-DNA-L@rootsweb.com. Or for more information, you can contact the admins (Glenn, Pat, Jeff, and Mike) at the links on the left of this page.<br><br> To join the Harris Project, either order a DNA test on this page or log into your FTDNA account, choose <B>Projects</B>, <B>Join</B>, and then choose <B>HARRIS</B>. Click on the <B>JOIN</B> button once located. By joining the project, your results will be included and compared with others in the Harris Project.<br><br> General Fund Donations (to assist those who may not afford testing) can be made here:<br><br> <a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/group-general-fund-contribution.aspx?g=Harris">Harris Group General Fund Contribution</a><br><br>

South Half of Ireland DNA: a geographic project, sorted by Irish county origin, for autosomal "Family Finder" and mitochondrial mtDNA test-takers; as well as Y-DNA. All interested in Irish genetic genealogy are Welcome; not just men with Y tests. Autosomal DNA Transfer into FTDNA is available and encouraged for those who have DNA tested elsewhere. https://www.familytreedna.com/autosomal-transfer We especially support and encourage women with autosomal and mitochondrial DNA tests, which we'll address in a separate spreadsheet, our companion Facebook group, 'South Half of Ireland DNA', and a Gedmatch project. Our focus is using the genetic genealogy and history of the whole roughly southern half of Ireland, in which a pattern of about 20 unrelated ancestral DNA lineages cluster roughly geographically, to understand our forebears. Which line is your ancestors' lineage, and what is your ancestral line's history and geography? Where are we from? The South Half of Ireland comprises the old civil and ecclesiastical (church) province of Munster, as well as far southern Connacht County Galway and southern province Leinster; which for our purposes include counties Offaly, Kildare, and Dublin south of the Liffey, as well as counties Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois, Wexford and Wicklow. The South Half of Ireland was traditionally known as Leath Moga and recognized in the year 1111 as a geographic entity centered in Cashel Tipperary at the ecclesiastical Synod of Ráth Breasail. The province of Munster has 6 counties: Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford. If you have ancestry, or suspect you have ancestry, from the South Half of Ireland and have DNA tested, will be testing, or have transferred a copy of your aDNA data file to FamilyTreeDNA from Ancestry.com or 23andme.com, please consider joining this geographical DNA project. Did your ancestor leave Ireland? No longer is "Born in Ireland" a barrier to discovering more about where your ancestor(s) came from within Ireland. DNA testing helps to refine ancestral location, sometimes very precisely, depending on how well DNA represented the location. Testers may observe this patterning within their people matching. According to a statement made in 2016 by Bennett Greenspan, Founding President of FamilyTreeDNA, DNA testing in Ireland has reached critical mass. This means someone with Irish heritage, regardless of where they are located in the world, who takes a DNA test, has a greater chance of discovering more about their ancestry. This project was created to serve as a resource to help Irish genealogy researchers narrow down their DNA test-takers matching to a specific region of Ireland. Ultimately, by joining this project, testers may be able to further refine their people matching to specific counties by detecting patterns of county clustering of matches. Membership consists of individuals who can document one or more of their ancestors as residing in the South Half of Ireland; having pedigree roots in or before the Famine period of 1845-1852, and for people who have strong DNA people matching indicating a high probability of ancestry from the region. We encourage members to contact their matches and collaborate. In the event of autosomal DNA transfer kits, a transfer must be completed and fully enabled (the $9-$19 unlock fee must be paid on the kit). ---------- We also encourage members to join FTDNA and Facebook projects Irish surname, clan, locational, YDNA and mtDNA projects. Links are added in the "Links" section as a convenience for our members, and to show our support for other projects.

This project reaches out to all Tuscarora people, those whose ancestors are from NY and NC. This project includes Yline (paternal), mitochondrial (maternal) and autosomal (Family Finder) results.

<B>READ THIS BEFORE REQUESTING TO JOIN! </B>YOU <b>MUST</b> HAVE ALREADY TRACED YOUR DNA LINE BACK TO THE COUNTRY OF WALES IN ORDER TO JOIN THIS PROJECT! Due to the importance of determining the genetic profile of the indigenous populations of the British Isles, The Wales DNA Project will attempt to collect the DNA haplotypes of as many persons as possible who can trace their Y-DNA and/or mtDNA lines to Wales (the reasoning by many researchers being that there was less genetic replacement from invaders there than elsewhere, excepting small inaccessible islands and similar locales). Tradition holds that the Celts retreated as far west in Wales as possible to escape invading populations. This project seeks to determine the validity of the theory. This project is open to descendants from all of Wales. THE SURNAME LIST IS BY NO MEANS COMPLETE; IT IS FOR SUGGESTION ONLY. Other surnames will be accepted with DOCUMENTED ancestry from Wales. ALSO, PLEASE NOTE THAT having your surname listed here is NOT proof of Welsh ancestry. MANY SURNAMES HAVE MULTIPLE ORIGINS. <b>Membership REQUIRES submitting ancestral information and administration approval.</b> There is also a discussion group located here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/walesdna/