Current Background:

In 2016 Cynthia Hartman of Pennsylvania became the Administrator of the Freed DNA project  You may contact her at:

puzzlepieces@wildblue.net

Historical Background, 2004-2015, as outlined by James M. Freed, Ph. D.:

As of November 18, 2015, Dr. James M. Freed, is regretfully resigning as Administrator. No replacement has been found as of this date.  If you are interested in being the Administrator of this Freed DNA project, please contact Family Tree DNA Customer Support at 713-868-1438.

The Freed Surname project was initiated in August 2004 as an outgrowth of:

(1) the project administrator finding several brick walls in researching his own Freed genealogy,

(2) finding suggested relationships on web sites that have no documentation, and

(3) being fascinated with all the expected different origins and backgrounds of the Freed surname (of various spellings) and wishing that a DNA study could aid all Freed genealogists in finding ancestral connections.

If you are a male with the surname of Freed, Fried, Friedt, Fread, etc., and wish to join this surname DNA project (or if you are organizing a DNA test for a male with these "Freed-related surnames", or if your surname is NOT Freed, or variations thereof, but you expect that your straight line male ancestry DOES include a Freed male), then you should join this Freed Y-DNA project.  Click on DNA tests at the very top of this page and slide down to Y-DNA.  The best choice is the 67 marker test.