The aim of the project is to explore the connections between people who are the descendants of those who lived in the historic North of Ireland village of Ballycarry, which has strong Scottish connections and a number of families that have lived in the district for generations. By testing people with known connections to the original families we will be able to confirm connections going back many generations, in many instances going beyond paper records. We are working with the local community association and have gathered together a team with a lot of experience in carrying out family history research and interpreting DNA test results which will analyse the results and handle queries from matches. The project will allow individuals around the world to identify that they have ancestors from Ballycarry with benefits for tourism, increasing community cohesiveness and benefiting generations to come as information is identified and made available for further research.

The Black Belt of Alabama DNA Project now connected to the African American Griot Legacy Project (AAGLP) was intended to use DNA as a tool for African Americans researching their central Alabama roots. It started with earlier members who can trace their male (Y-DNA) or female (MtDNA) ancestry to Dallas, Marengo, Perry or Wilcox counties (or to areas that border these counties) in the period from about 1840 through 1880. It continues to focus in this research while at the same time connecting to the broader research of the African American Legacy Project breaking down brick walls as a result of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.

Male line descendants of British & Irish Earls Nobles Barons and Gentry may join. At present we do not have an Activity Feed. we also lack a co-administrator so grouping will be delayed. For a more active project join England GB Groups EIJ project which has a very busy Activity Feed. Kits are sometimes transferred between these two projects. an overhaul of this project is planned but this will take some months.

Welcome! <br><br> If you've been researching family lines within Cambria County, Pennsylvania, then you know how rich and diverse the genealogical mix is in this single county. This group is for anyone, and everyone, with DNA connections to Cambria County.<br><br> This group is accepting both Y-DNA & Family Finder results from any contributor who wishes to join our group. We are no longer supporting mtDNA only kits. My own primary Cambria lines, on my mother's side, are Weakland (Paternal) and Riley/Reilly (Maternal). Cambria County was formed in 1807, from parts of Huntingdon and Bedford Counties. Pre-1807 families from Huntingdon and Bedford are always welcome too. Families from surrounding counties are always welcome as well, please indicate when joining if you're from a neighboring county.

Carolinas Free People of Color DNA Project focuses on accurately chronicling the genetic lineage of those historically classified as free persons of color (FPOC) who resided in North Carolina and South Carolina prior to the American Civil War. Descendants of such individuals may today self-identify as members of any ethnic group. Our project is open to those with a documented ancestor in your straight maternal (mtDNA) or paternal (yDNA) line who resided in the Carolinas and was listed in government records as a free person of color prior to 1860.

The Gaelic name Eoghan translates into modern day English as Owen or Ewen. The name Eoghan may be derived from eo ("yew") and fully translate to Born of the Yew. It also means Well Born based on the Latinized form of Eugenius. Mac/Mc is the Gaelic prefix which means "Son of". Mac Eoghain has been Anglicized as McEwen, McCowan, McKeown, McKeon, McKown, McCown, McCune, McCoun, McCuen, McOwen, McEuen, McQuown, McQueen and dozens of other spelling variants. When the Mac gets dropped( or never added to begin with ), you get the surnames Cowan, Cowen, Keown, Ewing etc. If "son" is added as a suffix instead of as a Mac prefix, you may get, Owens(on), and Eunson. If the Welsh prefix of Ab was used instead of Mac, then Ab Owen, becomes Bowen. This project aims to connect paternal lineages via Y-DNA testing. We typically recommend a 37 marker Y-DNA test to get your feet wet or a Big Y-700 if you want to fully test your Y-chromosome. Once FTDNA has your DNA in storage, it's easy to upgrade to more comprehensive tests. Please feel free to contact the project admins with any questions that you may have. Soundex B500, C500, G500, M250

A project for anyone with ancestors who lived in Connecticut at any time. This is a Y-DNA/MT-DNA project. Men and Women are welcome to join. You do not need direct ancestors from Connecticut any ancestor from Connecticut works. You can also join if you have no connections to Connecticut and just researching Connecticut families. No requirements to join everyone is welcome. If you left you can come back. If you want your results on the DNA result chart choose yes on publicly display results otherwise I will assume you don't want to publicly display them.

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/

This initiative has been established to extend the genealogical work of those with pre-1850 roots in the early Chesapeake region of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. An interest in exploring the DNA roots of early Chesapeake settlers began with the Group Administrator's research in Mathews County, Virginia, located on Virginia's Middle Peninsula. Most of her ancestors emigrated from England, Scotland and Wales to Mathews or emigrated from these countries to resettle in Mathews from neighboring Chesapeake counties (especially Middlesex and the Virginia Eastern Shore) between the mid-1600s and mid-1800s. Those with surnames listed below and others with family histories linking them to the area are invited to join. About Mathews, Virginia: Mathews was formed in 1790 from Gloucester County, Virginia. Hugh Gwynn of Wales was an early settler whose land patents extended along the Piankatank River. Gwynn's Island bears his name and Milford Haven, the body of water that separates the Island from the Mathews mainland, is a clue to his Welsh roots. Other 1600s land records for the area that became Mathews include the names Armestead (Armistead), Bohannon, Billups, Curtis, Davis, Degges (Diggs), Dudley, Elliot, Forrest, Lillie (Lilly), Ludlow, Marchant, Mechen (Mecham), Morgan, Putnam, and others. The boundaries of Gloucester County's colonial period Kingston Parish include most of modern day Mathews. The parish vestry’s register of marriages and births from 1749 to 1827 remains a key tool for genealogists. The modern county is still populated by many descendants of its earliest settlers.

Why join a project? 1/You get access to more information. 2/ You give others the ability to find you, so it is not all down to you. 3/ The Activity Feed in this project is very busy and a good place to ask questions. In general people should be members of three types of projects. A) A geographical project such as this. B) a surname project if there is one, C) At least one and perhaps more than one haplogroup projects. This project was started in Feb 2016.It's purpose was finding origins of surnames and DNA groups in Great Britain in England, Scotland, Wales and indeed Ireland. We hope to answer a number of different questions about the settlement of the British Isles. Great Britain is the largest island in the British isles which is why it is called great. England, Scotland and Wales can be looked at within modern political boundaries and there are projects for Scotland and Wales. This project takes a different approach ignoring modern political boundaries. It allows us to see all the British information in one concentrated place. Please note, unless you allow Admin to see your results by having your settings at least to LIMITED ACCESS we will not be able to do this. So if you are of English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish background you are welcome to join. The British Isles are dominated by the R1b haplogroup. This project gives emphasis to minority groups such as E, G, I and J. Other minority groups such as R1a and T are also welcome. Indeed if you are R1b you are also welcome! Place name surnames such as those ending -ton, -ham, -ford, -ley, -bridge, -worth, -stone, -well, -bridge, -by, -bury, -caster, -ing, -thorpe, -thwaite, -ey, -stow, cliff,-hill, -wick etc are particularly welcome. You can only join if you have tested with FTDNA Familytreedna If you are asking a question please give your kit number and haplogroup. Please do not send questions to our individual email addresses; they will not be answered. There are many pages in this project, try resetting your lines per page and searching your name or kit number to get to your information quickly. This is a gracious project, so be polite. Bad behaviour is not tolerated and regrettably sometimes people have to be removed.

For Family Finder, Y-DNA, and/or mtDNA kits whose ancestor/s lived in Farifield County SC, USA for some time or some generations.

The lineage of the clans of the ancient territories of Gailenga.

This project is an attempt to connect persons from various families who descend from ancestors who were located in the area of Georgetown County, South Carolina before the Civil War.

** This is a brand new group ** Please join so your surname is represented in Jones County and surrounding areas. The place for anyone with Jones County Mississippi (and surrounding areas) paternal ancestors. Other areas include: Covington Smith Jasper Wayne Perry Forrest

This is a surname group for those interested in the Surname LANDRETH/LANDRITH - we welcome autosomal members to this project as well as Y-DNA

Lituania Propria project is for those who trace their roots from all the times Lithuania Proper and surrounding Baltic lands. For those who still live in either in neighbourhood of it, or at least remember their ancestral country of origin, no matter what language today use or the country live in. Also we are interested in people, whose names reflect the names of Baltic tribes, ethnographic groups or regions. Therefore we invite to join the project Lithuanians of Lithuania Minor, Latvians, Latgalians as well as descendants of Old Prussians, Nadruvians, Scalovians, Curonians, Semigalians, Selonians, Yatvingians, West and East Galindians or even those who feels representing Neuri. For descendants of Lithuanian nobility genetic genealogy testing may help to explain prehistory of the family, confirm family legends, complete black holes in the documentary genealogical research, disclose the relationship to other noble families. Attention: Due to the newly introduced privacy settings, many project members became invisible in project charts. Please check and update your privacy settings.

This is a dual Ydna and Mtdna project created for genealogists researching their Louisiana Creole heritage. Creole means born in the New World or of the New World. Therefore, people of any ancestry or mixture who are descended from the early French and Spanish colonial settlers are part of this ethnic group.

Welcome to the Maine Genealogical Project, a Geographic Project. It is open to all with Maine connections, but I believe will be most helpful to those who have a pedigree including 4 - 7 generations of Maine ancestors. Autosomal and Y-DNA results along with our traditional genealogy research are the main tools of this project. A very special thanks to Martin Hendrix and Lee Martin who have volunteered as co-administrators. They are working with the Y results and overall administration of our project. The common links between members are a DNA match and eventually a known or suspected relationship based on traditional research with the geographic location being Maine. If you have or think you may have roots in Maine, Let's work together to connect with our matches.

Project accepts yDNA as well as autosomal DNA tests. Our yDNA project is for anyone with the surnames Mauldin, Malden or Maulding. Other spelling variations are accepted and anyone matching anyone with this surname is accepted. I am adding surnames affiliated with the Mauldins to help autosomal test subjects determine if there are other tests here for their Mauldin family. My family married into the Butler, Mooty, Hoy, Owen families so I have added those surnames. I am just beginning this so give me some time. If you have surnames of interest to you, please either post a list here or email me a list. The surnames will show up in a list that can be viewed by members by clicking on Surnames of this page and will give a count of how many people have that surname in their list. Please be sure you have added surnames to your profile. If you need help, email me. Thanks for testing and for joining the project. Nancy Hoy

Attempting to connect as many MacEoghain surname lines as possible, regardless of spelling. If your surname is spelled using any of the following ( optional ) letters in this sequence, then please join our Y-DNA study. (M)(a)(c)(C)(K)(Qu)(E,e)(O,o)(gh)(w)(u)(a)(e)(i)(y)(n)(g)(e)

The province of Munster has its own unique genetic history. The Munster Irish project hopes to use Y-DNA to gain insight into the heritage of the early peoples who populated this largest of the Irish provinces and compare their genetic relationships with the claims of early genealogical tracts and annals. At least three ancestral haplotypes appear to be particularly prevalent in Munster: Irish Type II (defined by SNP CTS4466), Irish Type III (defined by SNP L226) and a subclade we have identified as Munster I (defined by SNP L362). The surnames listed on our Background page have been identified as in use in Munster in pre-Norman times in various ancient works. Some of these surnames also occur elsewhere in Ireland and/or in the British Isles, where they may be derived from different sources. The intent is to focus ONLY on the surnames of Munster origin. ANY MALE OF ONE OF THE SURNAMES LISTED WHO TRACES HIS ORIGINS TO THE PROVINCE OF MUNSTER (counties Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford) or belongs to one of the three aforementioned Irish clusters is welcome to join this project. This is not limited to any single haplogroup. Membership criteria are more fully explained on the Background page of the project's website. NOTE: We are only researching Y-DNA of males of the listed surnames. If your results are only autosomal DNA, you do not qualify for participation. FOR THE LADIES, if you have a male relative of an eligible surname that has tested Y-DNA and fulfills the criteria, please ask them to join us.

This project is for descendants of families once referred to as free people of color, mulatto, free blacks and Native American, that once lived in the areas of southern Virginia, the Granville District, the eastern coast of North Carolina and portions of South Carolina. Many of these families migrated west to the New River area of Wilkes and Ashe County NC. In order to join the project one must be a descendant of the surnames above and their ancestors must have lived in the specified areas having once been identified by records as free people of color, mulatto, free blacks and Native Americans. If your surname is not listed and your history fits our criteria, please feel free to submit your story to us, we will make sure every submission is answered.

In taking forward its key objective of fostering an interest in family history with special reference to families who have roots in the North of Ireland and their descendants wherever they may be, the North of Ireland Family History Society (NIFHS) has established a project to use DNA testing as an aid to making genealogical connections within and between families whose roots are in the North of Ireland. The purpose of the project is to • Promote DNA testing by those whose heritage is from the North of Ireland. • Offer information, support and training for those who test and manage DNA tests of others. • Share DNA results to facilitate genealogical connections. • Carry out research into the DNA of the North of Ireland. The Society provides volunteer Project Administrators and Co-Administrators who promote and administer the project via branch meetings, local and family history events, social media and other appropriate communication channels to Society members, their families and members of the public with North of Ireland roots. The project covers Y-DNA, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and autosomal DNA (atDNA). To aid the analysis of results, standards of testing and the efficiency of support the project promotes testing through FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA), although not exclusively. Discounts are available from FTDNA if orders are placed through the DNA project. The Society runs regular courses on DNA testing for beginners, intermediates and advanced learners. Details are available at www.nifhs.org/resources/courses. If you have attended our DNA courses you are welcome to join our monthly DNA interest group. Its purpose is to educate, to give people an opportunity to work on their matches and to learn from each other. The North of Ireland DNA Project Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/DNAatNIFHS To learn more about the North of Ireland Family History Society you can find us at www.nifhs.org. Our Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/NIFHS Our Twitter is at https://twitter.com/NIFHS Registered Charity NIC106071

This project is a geographic project and thus is open to all yDNA and mtDNA participants. In 1744 the Virginia General Assembly created Albemarle County by taking the northern portion of Goochland County (itself created in 1728 from Henrico county). Its original land area included today's counties of Amherst, Buckingham, Fluvanna, and Nelson, much of Appomattox and part of Campbell. This project will include the counties that were in this same area both before and after the creation of Albemarle county. Since this is a geographically oriented project, the kits will be grouped by SNP markers rather than surnames.

The Owen DNA Project seeks to determine the relationship between the various early Owen families, and to characterize the Y-chromosome profiles for all of the early Owen family groups. Soon it should be possible with a simple Y-chromosome test, to determine from which early Owen family that a testee is descended (it is already possible for a few of the early families).

This project aims to verify genetically one or more generations of Peter Robinson's settler descendants with at least one generation of their ancestors in Ireland. The project welcomes members having known ancestors among the Peter Robinson settlers and having a FamilyTreeDNA test kit of any kind.

Join requirements: markers within the current CTS4466 STR tested signature. Those who are not CTS4466 are also welcome since we will be reusing our methods to research other haplogroups.

The Robeson Co. NC American Indian Regional DNA Project is open to anyone who believes they are (or could be) descendants of an American Indian, and who desire to determine and/or prove their American Indian heritage when their ancestors are believed to originally be from the Robeson Co., North Carolina vicinity. The vicinity includes the counties adjacent to Robeson County in both North and South Carolina. The Lumbee Tribe is but one of the American Indian Tribes that has inhabited the southeast North Carolina and northeast South Carolina area over the past 500 years. The region was also host to many Indians who were not associated with an organized tribe. This project is not associated with any specific tribe, but participation includes people researching their heritage associated with any of the following tribes or groups: Catawba, Cheraws, Chowanoc, Coharie, Croatoan, Indians of Robeson County, Lumbee, PeeDee, Tuscarora , Waccamaw, etc. The Robeson County area and this project cover a melting-pot of Indian cultures and tribal people. This DNA project is available to people who have obtained a Y-Chromosome test (direct paternal line), a mitochondrial DNA test (direct maternal line) and/or an atDNA test (Family Finder) with FTDNA. The primary objective of this project is to establish the genetic profile(s) for the various American Indians in the region, regardless of tribe affiliation, if any. In addition, the results of this project will assist family historians trace their American Indian ancestry and identify their genetic cousins among the other members and their Indian ancestors. The 19th century U.S. censuses identified prominent Indian family surnames from this region to be Brayboy, Brooks, Carter, Chavis, Cumbo, Dial, Hammond, Kersey, Locklear, Lowry, Oxendine and Revels. They are usually listed in the Census as "All Other Free Persons." Other surnames of interest to the this Project include: Allen, Berry, Brewington, Byrd, Cumbaa, Gallagher, Goins, Hersey, Jordan, Kelly, Middleton, Morgan, Stanley, Strickland, Webb and Woolfork. The U.S. census identifies the surnames listed below as names used by some Indian families. Many of these surnames also identify Caucasian and African families as well in the Robeson County vicinity. Robert B. Noles, Robeson Co. NC American Indian Group Administrator (rbnoles@bellsouth.net)

Updated 14 September 2024. The Big Y 700 is our test of choice for males. We do ask that ALL who join the project be of actual Scots-Irish ancestry. In your application to join please describe how you meet this criteria. This is a Y chromosome project so men only test. Ladies may participate by proxy (have a male relative take the test. The majority of the Scots-Irish are of Ulster Scots ancestry. Generally speaking there were three migrations of Scots into Ulster; these are 1)Scottish Lowland settlers to Ulster during the Plantation of Ulster (1610-1700), 2) Highland Scots that migrated to northern Ireland in the 1500s, and 3) Gallóglaigh Scots that migrated to Ireland circa 1300 to 1400. There are other families that identify as Scots-Irish that are native Irish, Manx, and Border English, but married into and are part of Scots-Irish society.

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.

Updated 14 September 2024. The Big Y 700 is our test of choice for males. The Ulster DNA Project Membership is free and open to all of Ulster ancestry. The goal of the Ulster DNA Project is to further the study of Ulster surnames, families, clans, and tribal affiliations of the people of Ulster and their descendants throughout the Diaspora. The Ulster DNA Project is a Y chromosome paternal ancestry project. The Y chromosome is only passed from father to son, so only men may participate. Women researching their father's paternal line will need to have a male of that line participate. Ulster has several factors that have made family research and surname study there very problematic, however DNA testing has given researchers a very powerful and effective tool to bring clarity and uncover obscured Ulster history. This project has evolved from the very successful work of individual Ulster family DNA projects. These projects very dramatically demonstrated the need to separate history from pseudo history and to correct many mistaken ideas that originate in generic surname books. The Ulster DNA Project will not only further one’s family history, but also has the goal of showing a family’s origins, clan affiliation when appropriate, and even deep ancestry dating to tribal times. PLEASE keep your Email address current on your Family Tree page, it is the only way we have to contact you. Please visit our website at www.ulsterheritage.com

This project aims to compile the genetic signatures of the historic inhabitants of the state of Utah. Whether you're the first generation in your family to live in Utah, a descendant of early Latter-day Saint pioneers and other European settlers, or a descendant of the many indigenous peoples of Utah, this is the project for you!