Welcome to the F mtDNA Project. We hope to collect data from F members, to help us discover geographical similarities among the members of the branches. Anyone may join. This tests the mtDNA and Y chromosomes for genetic matches. The Y-DNA test will hopefully help determine name changes. We will be able to group the members that match each other into their own group once we run the Y-DNA Family Grouping App (http://www.ydnagroupingapp.com/). See the link for further details on how this is done. I group the mtDNA member matches manually. For those that go all the way and test using the Big-Y700, be sure to click the "Discover" button on your results dashboard to find out more about your haplogroup! It is very important that you come here with a Family Tree that has been populated as much as possible. It does no one any good having DNA matches and not able to locate them on your Tree. But this may be caused by what Maurice Gleeson calls the SDS (https://dnaandfamilytreeresearch.blogspot.com/2018/07/goodbye-npe-hello-sds-some-causes-of.html). All project members can view and update the activity feed when they are signed on to FamilyTreeDNA. Please log on to FamilyTreeDNA and provide your earliest ancestors' name, birth date, and birthplace - If you have not done so.