About us
The goal of the BARKER Surname Project is to distinguish between BARKER ancestral lines, worldwide, using both yDNA testing and traditional genealogical information. Any reasonable spelling variant will be included. Please feel free to suggest a variant if yours is missing.
In order to provide maximum benefit to everyone, someone not only needs to do the relevant yDNA testing, but also link this to their reliable traditional genealogical research. And they need to share this information with others so that solid connections can be made. This is essentially a Team Sport where we help each other to learn more about our ancestry.
In order to provide maximum benefit to everyone, someone not only needs to do the relevant yDNA testing, but also link this to their reliable traditional genealogical research. And they need to share this information with others so that solid connections can be made. This is essentially a Team Sport where we help each other to learn more about our ancestry.
Although Y-37 is a good starter test, Y-111 is clearly superior and does a great job of identifying who someone is for genealogical purposes. The value of Big Y-700 testing depends upon what is already known about your specific patrilineal ancestry and your interest in learning about your deep ancestry.
In order to collaborate with and help others to the maximum extent possible, it is important that your Group Project Profile setting be selected to ON in the Opt in to Sharing slider. To reach this in your FTDNA account, hover your mouse cover over the name in the upper right corner until the pull-down menu appears and then click on Account Settings. When the Account Settings page appears, click on Project Preferences in the menu right below Account Settings. In the page that comes up, scroll down to the section that says Project Sharing. The first item in that section is Group Project Profile.
If the Group Project Profile is not set to ON, the only people who will your test results will be Members of this Project and then only if they look at the Project's results table while signed into their FTDNA account.
That means the following will have no idea you even exist:
1) Professional genealogists hired by your relatives to find others in your family
2) Your relatives among the general public who may be looking for you, possibly in order to decide whether to do genetic testing also
3) Your relatives who have already tested, but who are not Members of this Project for some reason