The goals of the project can be summarised as follows:

The Carmichael DNA Project aims to strengthen bonds and fellowship through the following objectives:

(a)  Identify the Y-chromosome signature (the paternal tree) of different Carmichael lineages.

(b)  Through (a), help test-takers to establish the likeliest location where their earliest Carmichael ancestors would have lived.

(c)  Through (a), help test-takers to establish how they are connected to other test takers and to their particular lineage using both genealogical and DNA evidence.