All participants are welcome. Our only stipulation is that the direct paternal line represented by the Y-DNA test must go back to Poland and/or the Ukraine and should be Germanic. We encourage you to join today!. SGGEE is the Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe, an international genealogical society focused on Germans from Russian Poland and Volhynia and related areas. Our website is www.sggee.org. Participation in this Y-DNA project does not require membership in SGGEE. We are interested in assisting our members discover their roots and broader participation assists this goal.