Y-DNA Participants

Opt In to the Pace Y-DNA Project (IMPORTANT!)

To give permission for your results to be used in the Pace DNA project and for your Y-DNA STR marker results to be seen on the Pace Y-DNA Project results page (public), you need to complete these steps to Opt In to the project:

1. Sign into your Family Tree DNA account.
2. On your account dashboard, hover over your name in the top right hand corner. Click on Account Settings.
3. Click on the Project Preferences tab
4. On the Project Preferences screen, scroll down to Project Sharing
5. Under the Group Project Profile, you need to Opt in to Sharing. The default setting is Off. You need to allow your results to be used in the Project for your marker results to show up on the results screen and to allow us to use your results in the project.

Your results won't show up in any project results pages until you Opt In.

1. Sign into your Family Tree DNA account.
2. On your account dashboard, hover over your name in the top right hand corner. Click on Account Settings.

3. Click on the Genealogy tab

4. Click on Earliest Known Ancestors tab

5. Enter the name of your earliest known, documented male Pace ancestor, his birth-death years and location. You may also consider adding additional identifiers such as a wife's name or the son's name "> name of son" after the information about your earliest known ancestor.

Joining Haplogroup Projects on Family Tree DNA

Pace BigY participants are encouraged to join the associated haplogroup and subclade projects for their Y-DNA SNP results.

Richard Pace family BigY test takers (based on Y-DNA results) are encouraged to consider joining the following haplogroup projects:

1.  R R1b ALL Subclades
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-1b/about

2.  R U106 (R1b-U106) Y-DNA Haplogroup

John Pace of Middlesex Co, VA family BigY test takers (based on Y-DNA results) are encouraged to consider joining the following haplogroup project:

1.  I-M223 Y-DNA Haplogroup

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1.  Download your raw AncestryDNA results to your computer. Keep track of where you store the raw DNA data file on your computer. It will be a huge zipped file. Do not unzip the file. If it becomes unzipped, you will need to re-zip it. Instructions for downloading can be found here:
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Downloading-AncestryDNA-Raw-Data

2. Upload your raw DNA results to Family Tree DNA (free)
https://www.familytreedna.com/autosomal-transfer

3   Create an account on Family Tree DNA as part of the upload process. If you already have a Family Tree DNA account, log in first. Each person/DNA tester has their own account on Family Tree DNA.

4.  While logged into your account, you can join the Pace DNA project at the link below. You can also log into your account as part of the join process. (free)
https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/pace/about

5. There will be a short question to answer about your Pace lineage before you are accepted into the project. Please allow time for the response to be reviewed.

6  Family Tree DNA provides additional tools to analyze your DNA results. There is a small fee if you want to gain access to the tools. (recommended)

You can find out who your autosomal DNA matches are in the Pace DNA project (vs. the entire Family Tree DNA database) by running the Advanced Matches comparison. The results will show Pace DNA project participants who share autosomal DNA with you. CAUTION: Just because you are both in the Pace project doesn't necessarily mean that you received your common DNA from your Paceancestors - you may have more than one set of shared ancestors who are not Paces. But it gives you a good place to start.

To check for Family Finder matches (see Activity Feed or Photos for image of instructions)

1 - Under Family Finder, select Advanced Matches

2 - Select Pace instead of Entire Database

3 - Select Family Finder box

The Pace DNA Project welcomes donations to the General Fund to assist in purchasing or upgrading DNA tests for other project members. Any amount is appreciated. Donations for the Pace General Fund can be made through the button on this page. For more information, see:

How do I contribute to a group project’s general fund?  (https://learn.familytreedna.com/group-projects/contribute-general-fund/)