To assist the Upstate South Carolina DNA project in its efforts to leverage Y-DNA and mtDNA analysis, with traditional archival research, to identify families that lived in the present-day counties of Abbeville, Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Greenwood, Laurens, Oconee, Pickens, Spartanburg, and Union, South Carolina, before 1850, members should:

- Upgrade their FTDNA STR test to FTDNA’s Big Y test.

- Provide their paternal-line information to the project administrator for inclusion in the Background section of the website. (Please see the Background section for examples of content and format.)

- Invite close and distant paternal-line relatives to take FTDNA’s Big Y test, and join the Upstate South Carolina DNA project.