This site was originally set up by Stephen Ferriss who was the Administrator until 12 November 2013. This is why the Project Name sometimes comes up as FERRISS. FTDNA is unable to change the url. John Adam Farris ran this group until his death in 2024. He can be credited with most of the descriptions and subgroups created in this project. Josh Faris then took over as the 3rd administrator, while Elvin Farris has faithfully served as co-admin with both John and Josh. Over time, other FARRIS men started to join this group which introduced many other spelling variations. Some of these spelling variations have already been connected by Y-DNA matches. As more men join this project, we can expect even more Y-DNA matches between the various spellings.