This project accumulates DNA results data for selected families with ancestors who were residents of Sumner County, Tennessee before the Civil War. This allows for analytical comparisons, and genealogical connections, in some instances.

Project Administrators are not FTDNA employees, they are volunteers. They do not receive any form of financial payment or any other incentive or reimbursement for their work.  Project administrators are responsible for the content on the project websites.  

Organization of DNA kits into subgroups and naming of those groups is done by project administrators after analyzing the comparative results.  Placement of DNA kits within the subgroups is dictated by FTDNA programing and cannot be altered by project administrators.  Many of the testees in this project have ordered testing on advanced markers ( STRs ) or individual STRs in the last marker panel.  FTDNA programing at this time does not allow for the display of those markers.  Many testees have also ordered the Deep Clade Haplogroup SNP test and advanced SNP testing.  Project administrators have indicated the primary haplogroup branch SNP in the name of the subgroups where applicable.

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Sumner_County,_Tennessee