The JAMAICA DNA Project welcomes everyone with direct Jamaican Y-DNA (paternal line) or mtDNA (maternal line) heritage. The project is for all who have tested and wish to discover and share how their Y-DNA or mtDNA matches other Jamaica kits. To be a active member who will assist project, member's first name, last name and email is viewable in your FTDNA account and not listed as private. The goal is to help family historians trace their ancestry and identify genetic cousins and match individuals or families who share direct male or female Jamaican ancestry and to trace their origins back to Africa, Europe and Asia. Please also join the Facebook group associated with this project, https://www.facebook.com/groups/FTDNAJamaicaDNAProject/ This is a geographical project involving a Y chromosome (paternal line) and a mitochondrial DNA (maternal line) studies. Participants must have direct paternal line ancestry in Jamaica or direct maternal line ancestry in Jamaica.