The Assyrian areas in the Middle East from which modern-day Assyrians have their origins include the Hakkari Mountains in Southeastern Turkey, the Urmia region to the East in Iran, the Tur Abdin region to the West, as well as Northeastern Syria and Northern Iraq. These regions have made out the Assyrian heartland for the last several centuries. Before a participant can join the Assyrian Heritage DNA Project, he or she must inform the DNA Project's co-administrators (Mary Yonan yonan@fgi.net, Joel Elias joandjoa@pacbell.net, and Paul Givargidze paul.givargidze@gmail.com ) about which of those five regions is the site of his/her maternal and/or paternal Assyrian ancestral origin. Participants wishing to order a maternal mtDNA test must be able to trace his or her maternal Assyrian roots back to those areas within four or fewer generations. Participants wishing to order a Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) test must be able to trace his paternal Assyrian roots back to those areas within four or fewer generations. If a potential Assyrian Hertiage DNA Project applicant can't provide the requested info, we won't approve joining our project. If your father's and/or your mother's ancestor's were Assyrians from the Assyrian heartland, you are invited to join the Assyrian Heritage DNA Project. Our DNA Project welcomes all direct line male and female descendants of Assyrian heritage whose ancestors were from the Middle East.

This Project is open to males (YDNA) and females (mtDNA) who have been tested at Family Tree DNA (including iGENEA and National Geographic's Genographic Project) and have a tradition and/or documentation placing their Jewish ancestors in Bessarabia; a region that included Moldova, part of Romania and part of Ukraine. The goals of the project are: To promote discussion and exchange of information among the descendants of those who came from Jewish Bessarabia. To help identify relationships within the group based upon DNA and documentation.

French Version Le Projet Bretagne/Brittany accueille tous les hommes qui ont ou ont fait un test yDNA et qui ont un ancêtre Breton dans leur ligne paternelle. Ceci inclut le kit Projet Genographic transféré a FTDNA également. Veuillez noter que c'est un projet yDNA seulement, MtDNA ne sera pas documenté ni représenté. English Version The Bretagne/Brittany Project welcomes males who are doing or who have done a yDNA test and who have Breton ancestry on their own paternal line. This includes yDNA Genographic conversion kits, as well. Please note that it is a yDNA Project only. Votre Administrateur est : / Your Admin is: Josselin LE GALL (celtarion@hotmail.com)

The East Anglia Geographic DNA Project is for those whose ancestry traces to the East Anglia region in England. It includes the counties of Suffolk & Norfolk; plus eastern Cambridgeshire, northern Essex, & SE Lincolnshire JOINING the PROJECT 1. Requests to join need to be made after signing in on the FTDNA website, and include a brief outline of some family history in East Anglia. 2. Most Distant Known Ancestor information under Set Up Preferences on your individual FTDNA results page needs to be completed with name, baptism or birth and location in East Anglia. (e.g. George Thurlow, b1725 Brockford SFK). 3. FTDNA has made the default setting for access of new member samples, by the project administrators, and is a 'read only for administrators', this is the lowest access level accepted in the project.

The Elias DNA Project is for all who wish to work together to find their common heritage through DNA testing and sharing of information. All variant spellings are welcome. If your Surname spelling is missing, we'll be glad to add it.

Descendants patrilinéaires ou matrilinéaires d'habitants de Montreuil sur le bois de Vincennes. // Paternal or Maternal descendants of residents of Montreuil, Seine-St-Denis, France.

Welcome to the official DNA Project for the Frangieh Family & Relatives Genealogy Project (FFRGP) This project is here to bring all family members, ancestors, descendants and extended family members of all families of Ehden and Zgharta, Lebanon, primarily focusing on those that have at any point in time married someone from the Frangieh family, including those that have lived in Lebanon and/or emigrated to many countries around the world originating from Zgharta, Ehden and other areas of Lebanon. This DNA Project on FTDNA is known as Round 4 of our evidence processing schedule. Round 4 consists of Analysis and Processing of DNA Matches, of which the project founder, Raymond Frangie, already has over 1000 DNA Matches of 4th Cousin or Closer as identified via Ancestry, along with numerous matches on FTDNA. This project will allow the project to consolidate DNA Matches globally, making it easier to process and identify relatives. While the project is currently processing Stage 1 of Round 2 in our evidence schedule, given that at the current rate Round 4 may not be reached until 2022-2023, the global project team has decided to run Round 4 in parallel. For more information and regular updates, please request to join our private group on Facebook, titled Frangieh Family & Relatives Genealogy Project, located here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FFRGP/

Welcome to the Germany-YDNA = German Language Area DNA Research Project! The German-speaking area of Europe has always been a crossroad of various ethnic and cultural groups throughout history. This project would like to collect and analyze all of the different genetic contributions of all people whose native language was at some point in the past, or is in the present, German. Thus, everyone who knows, or his/her ancestor in the past, considers German to be his/her Native Language is cordially invited to join this project. Please do provide us below with details about your earliest known patrilinear (= direct male line of descent) ancestor, and, if available, please email the administrator a pedigree chart or documentation/description of your German ancestry after having joined the project. If known, please provide us below with the name, the date, & location of your earliest known patrilinear European ancestor. If you have already been tested, please click on the 'Join Projects' link on your personal page at FTDNA. Facebook group (English): http://www.facebook.com/groups/germanydna/ Facebook group (German): https://www.facebook.com/groups/DNAGenealogie/

If your ancestors were in the glassmaking business, you are welcome to join this project. We are attempting to trace the DNA lines of the collection of families who kept the secret of glass making in the family for three millennia.

This group welcomes members who can trace their ancestry to the town that is now Kępno, Poznań province, Poland (formerly Kempen, Grand Duchy of Posen, Prussia) or nearby communities. Anyone who has taken the Family Finder test will be accepted if they can demonstrate any ancestor from Kępno. Y-DNA testers / mt-DNA testers will need to demonstrate respectively a continuous male / female line.

All people with roots from Los Altos de Jalisco are encouraged to join this geographical project Todas las personas con raíces en Los Altos de Jalisco son bienvenidos de unirse a nuestro proyecto geográfico.

**To participate in this group you must have a YDNA test on file. You may purchase a test at the discounted group rate when joining.** The primary objective is to find a possible DNA pattern amongst Puerto Ricans with known or suspected Majorcan/Jewish ancestry. This data would then be compared to the relatively homogenous and distinct DNA found in the descendants of Majorcans Jews today. Their DNA is distinctive even from the rest of the Majorcan population thus enabling one to effectively compare the Puerto Rican results with that of the Majorcans. All data would be analyzed alongside genealogical and historical information to possibly track the once illegal Jewish emigration from Majorca to Puerto Rico. Members of this project will have some connection to (or combination of) Majorcan, Puerto Rican, Jewish ancestry. EN ESPAÑOL El objetivo principal es encontrar un patrón de ADN posible entre los puertorriqueños que se sabe o se sospecha de Mallorca / ascendencia judía. Estos datos se compararán con el ADN relativamente homogéneas y distintas que se encuentran en los descendientes de mallorquines Judio hoy. Su ADN se distingue incluso del resto de la población mallorquina, lo que permite, a comparar con eficacia los resultados de Puerto Rico con la de los mallorquines. Todos los datos serán analizados junto con información genealógica e histórica para realizar un seguimiento, posiblemente, la emigración judía de Mallorca, una vez ilegales a Puerto Rico. Los miembros de este proyecto tendrá alguna relación con (o una combinación de) Mallorca, Puerto Rico, ascendencia judía.

This Project is for those whose ancestry is so-called Low-German Mennonite. Note that this is NOT a surname project. Simply having one of the surnames listed below does not get you into the project. You must provide genealogical information to support the possibility that you have Low-German Mennonite ancestry or have reason to suspect that you have Low-German Mennonite ancestry. There are different types of Mennonites so please read the information provided below before you request to join the project. Also note that simply matching someone who is in the project or matching someone who has known Low-German ancestry does NOT qualify you to join the project. You must provide genealogical information to support the possibility that you have Low-German Mennonite ancestry or have reason to suspect that you have Low-German Mennonite ancestry. The Low-German Mennonites are descended from those Anabaptists/Mennonites who settled in northern Poland from the early 1500s to the late 1600s. The majority of these people were from the Netherlands, with significant proportions coming from Switzerland and Germany. In 1772 a large part of Poland was partitioned, with the region where the majority of Mennonites lived going to Prussia. A second partition put nearly all of the Mennonites in Prussian territory. Most of these Mennonites lived in the province of West Prussia. The Prussian government was highly militaristic which clashed with the pacifism of the Mennonites. Eventually the Prussian government tied land acquisition to military service. Since the Mennonites could no longer acquire new property without giving up their pacifism many chose to leave Prussian territory. Between 1788 and 1820 about a third of the Prussian Mennonites moved to southern Russia (at that time known in German as Sud Russland; now known as Ukraine). After a few generations there were also problems in Russia. Aside from a shortage of land the Mennonites were under pressure by the Russian government to assimilate into Russian society (which included joining the military). As a result large numbers of Mennonites began leaving Russia in 1874. Over the next decade nearly a third of the Russian Mennonites had moved to North America. Because the majority of Low-German Mennonites in North America are descended from those who once lived in Russia they are often, incorrectly, referred to as the Russian Mennonites. This group is known as the Low-German Mennonites because during their 200-plus years in Poland/Prussia they developed their own Germanic dialect, known as Plaut Dietsch, also known as Platt Deutsch in German, or Low-German in English.

Welcome to the Nueva Galicia DNA project. This project comprises of the the DNA of people with ancestry from the region that was known as Nueva Galicia and whose territory included what is now Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, Nayarit, and Colima. Anyone with at least one ancestor from any of the above states is encouraged to join. We are using all four types of DNA tests for the project - Y-DNA STR, Y-DNA SNP, mtDNA, and Family Finder (autosomal DNA). Bienvenidos al proyecto de ADN de Nueva Galicia. Este proyecto se trata de del ADN de personas con ancestros de la región que anteriormente se llamaba Nueva Galicia. Esa región incluía el territorio que ahora son los estados de Jalisco, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, Nayarit, y Colima. Se agradece la participación de cualquier persona que tiene por lo menos un ancestro de uno de los estados antes mencionados. Estamos usando los cuatro tipos de pruebas de ADN - ADN-Y SSR o STR, ADN-Y SNP, ADNmt, y Family Finder (ADN autosómico).

🇺🇦 Участь у групі - це додатковий спосіб дослідження генеалогічних та генетичних зв’язків і порівняння результатів. Приєднуйте свої ДНК-набори до цієї групи, щоб дізнатися більше про власний родовід і походження предків! Разом досліджуємо генетичне різноманіття, регіональні особливості, історичні міграційні шляхи та процеси, які формували сучасний генофонд України, етнічних українців та їх нащадків. 🧬 Особливу увагу приділяємо порівнянню та структуруванню результатів Y-ДНК (давнє походження і збіги по прямій батьківській лінії) і mtДНК (давнє походження і збіги по прямій материнській лінії), але не обмежуємося лише ними. ‼️ ВАЖЛИВО! Будь ласка, перевірте, наскільки точно і детально у вас заповнено кожен аккаунт, яким ви керуєте. Зайдіть у Налаштування вашого аккаунту (Account Settings), там перейдіть на вкладку Генеалогія (Genealogy). Переконайтеся, що у вас заповнено обидві вкладки - Прізвища (Surnames) і Найдавніші відомі предки (Earliest Known Ancestors). Обов’язково для обох прямих предків по батьківській і материнській лініях оберіть зі списку країну походження (Country of origin) та вкажіть на мапі конкретні населені пункти, звідки вони походять (Update location). Не забудьте в кінці зберегти зміни! ✅ Правильно і детально заповнені профілі всіх учасників допомагають вам і вашим збігам зрозуміти, де раніше могли перетинатися ваші предки. Якщо кожен ще раз перевірить і заповнить усі ці дані - шукати спільних предків стане набагато простіше. Також до кожного аккаунту дуже бажано прив’язати ваше дерево з MyHeritage, якщо у вас таке є. ❓ Маєте питання чи пропозиції? Зіткнулися з проблемою або не знаєте, що робити далі? Потрібна допомога з перенесенням ваших результатів з MyHeritage, Ancestry або 23andMe до FamilyTreeDNA, замовленням додаткового тесту чи інтерпретацією отриманих результатів? Або, можливо, просто хочете зв’язатися з кимось із учасників групи? Створіть допис на сторінці Activity Feed або зверніться безпосередньо до адміністраторів групи - ми вам допоможемо! 💰 Ви також можете задонатити будь-яку суму грошей у фонд групи через кнопку Donate. Всі кошти залишаються на платформі FTDNA і будуть витрачені на додаткові знижки учасникам групи при замовленні ними Big Y-700. Завдяки вашим донатам вже більше 10 учасників групи отримали додаткову знижку. Дякуємо! *** 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 Group Projects are an additional way to research genealogical and genetic connections and compare results. Join your DNA kits to this group to learn more about your own lineage and ancestral origins! Together, we explore the genetic diversity, regional characteristics, historical migration routes, and processes that have shaped the modern gene pool of Ukraine, ethnic Ukrainians and their descendants. 🧬 Special attention is given to the analysis and structuring of Y-DNA (ancient origins and matches along the direct paternal line) and mtDNA (ancient origins and matches along the direct maternal line) results, but we are not limited to them. ‼️ IMPORTANT! Please check how accurately and completely each of your accounts is filled out. Open the "Account Settings" page, then go to the "Genealogy" tab. Make sure that both sections, "Surnames" and "Earliest Known Ancestors", are completed. For both paternal and maternal ancestors, be sure to select the "Country of origin" from the dropdown and specify the "Location" (specific places where these ancestral lines originated) on the map. ✅ Properly and thoroughly completed profiles help both you and your matches understand where your ancestors may have crossed paths. If everyone double-checks and fills out this information, finding common ancestors will become much easier. ❓ Have questions or suggestions? Need help transferring your results from MyHeritage, Ancestry or 23andMe to FamilyTreeDNA, ordering an additional test, or interpreting your results? Stuck with an issue or unsure what to do next? Or perhaps you just want to get in touch with someone from the group? Feel free to create a post on the Activity Feed page or contact the administrators directly. 💰 You can also donate any amount of money to the group fund using the Donate button. All funds remain on the FTDNA platform and will be used to provide additional discounts for group members when ordering the Big Y-700 test. More than 10 group members have already ordered Big Y and received an extra discount. Thank you!