Here's a step-by-step guide to administering your project on a Worldfamilies.net website.

The Project Administrator is often the one "pulling the load" for a project:  communicating with project members, recruiting new members, posting and interpreting results, analyzing the direction the project needs to take, posting and connecting pedigrees, and answering lots of questions.  While this is exciting and fun, it can also be overwhelming at first, and time consuming even for a veteran administrator.  Worldfamilies.net offers you as much or as little help as you need.  

You can choose to do all of these tasks right away, or start by doing some of them and adding more as you gain confidence. It takes all of these functions to successfully manage your project, and we highly recommend that you recruit a co-administrator to share the tasks. We give you detailed instructions about posting on the website, sending welcome letters, and answering questions, and we will be available to assist when you need help

  Here are the tools to help you manage your project! 

First, an explanation of the policies of Worldfamilies.net:

We provide this site as a service to you, the Surname DNA Project and to the whole Genetic Genealogy community. We expect it to be used only to support the project and any group(s) that are engaged in supporting the project. You may list books or other articles for sale that relate directly to this Surname Project and solicit donations to support this Surname Project. No other commercial activity is allowed without prior written permission. We ask that you be responsible and honest in all your postings and that you respect the expectations of privacy of your project members, or specifically obtain their okay to divulge their personal information. As a reference, FTDNA lists kit number, last name and marker results in their public site. We consider it okay to post that information without approval. World Families Network has a business arrangement with Family Tree DNA and we request that you respect both WFN and FTDNA in whatever you post. It is perfectly ok to post results of men tested at other testing companies. We ask that you not place links to other testing companies. Please let us know if you reach the point where you will no longer be involved, so we can find a replacement.

We reserve the right to edit offending material and/or to suspend or terminate your use of this site for failing to honor these expectations.

We hope that leading your surname dna project will be personally rewarding for you and that it will further research and cooperation within your surname families. And – we hope that all of the participants in your project make new friends and learn more about their ancestry.