Family Finder project

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A Family Finder project collects autosomal Family Finder DNA results from Family Tree DNA customers for a specific country or region (a geographical DNA project) or for the descendants of a specified ancestor or ancestral couple. FTDNA recommend that "the number of generations from the current generation — those who will be tested — to the generation of the focus couple should be between four and seven". Some Family Finder projects are run in conjunction with pre-existing surname or geographical projects.

Contents 1 Family Finder projects 2 General 3 Geographical projects 4 Geographical/haplogroup projects 5 Surname projects 6 See also 7 External links

Family Finder projects

As of July 2010 there are around 20 dedicated Family Finder projects at Family Tree DNA. The following projects have public websites:

• Hatteras Island Family Finder Project, a project for people who descend from ancestors who lived on Hatteras or Okracoke islands in what is now Dare County, North Carolina.
• Lost Colony Family Finder Project, a project for anyone who has taken a Family Finder test and believes they are descended from one of the Lost Colonists of Roanoke (Roanoke Island in Dare County in present-day North Carolina)
• Newfoundland and Labrador Family Finder Project, a project for anyone who has ancestry from the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador

General

• Leon Kull's HIR Search project A project to find HIRs (half-identical regions) using participants' raw data from 23andMe, deCODE genetics and FTDNA's Family Finder. HIR Search compares your genome data against another person's genome to find areas where half or more base pairs match. These regions are markers of common ancestry. To participate email your raw data file to .

Geographical projects

The project administrator(s) of the following geographical projects are collecting Family Finder results from anyone with ancestry from the relevant country or region:

• Bahamas DNA Project
• Laurens County, South Carolina
• Portugal DNA project
• Scotland DNA project

Geographical/haplogroup projects

The project administrators of the following project which combines features of geographical and haplogroup projects are collecting Family Finder results from anyone with a ccgg, gccg, or similar 2c2g result on the DYS464X test and from anyone with a close match to a person with a ccgg, gccg, or similar 2c2g result. Anyone interested in learning more about this project is encouraged to visit the project website and contact the administrators.

• DYS464Xccgg Project

Surname projects

The project administrator(s) of the following surname projects are collecting Family Finder results from anyone who has the relevant surname in their direct ancestral line on any part of their family tree:

• Adamthwaite DNA project
• Bartlett DNA project
• Bolt DNA project
• Cruwys/Cruse DNA project
• Fuller DNA project
• Kasbohm DNA project
• MacCallum/Malcolm DNA project
• Proctor DNA Project
• Vick DNA project

See also

• 23andMe Project

External links

• FTDNA Family Finder FAQs See in particular FAQs 70 to 78