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Join Forces With Your Matches!

Work with others to discover your history!

  • FTDNA will send you automated messages when you have a match (either with only your surname project members or to their internal "opted-in" database) - depending on your selection.  You can contact these individuals through their email addresses.
     

  • In addition, you can contact  the project administrator of the project to ask to be put in touch with the individual.   You will want to exchange information and compare your paper trails to find where you connect. 
     

  • You will also want to contact those whose pedigrees indicate that you share a common ancestor.  
     

  • Recruit new participants.
     

  • Post on message boards and forums such as GenForum. 
    (There are some good ways and some bad ways to do this.   Lauren Boyd posted a message:     "How to win friends and influence List Admins" on Genealogy-DNA-L that spells out appropriate ways to use the forums, boards & lists.)
     

  • Make personal contact with researchers you have met over the course of your traditional research.  Encourage every researcher you work with to contact their own circle of researchers - and to make the same requests ofthem to participate and to contact their circle of researchers. 
     

  • Utilize your Family Historical Society, Family Reunion, or other organization of your family name to help you find interest, participants and support.  (If necessary, start one.)
     

  • Contact other researchers, family members, and family associations. 
     

  • Encourage each participant to post his pedigree on the Pedigree Forum and to post his Earliest Known Ancestor at FTDNA.

  • Administer or co-administer the project if there is not already an administrator.
     
  • Target specific individuals to be tested who will help clarify the family lineages. 
     
  • Use the Surname Forums at WFN Forums or the  Family Tree DNA Forum. It will be useful in providing updates to your participants and may help in your quest to reach more possible participants.   (Pick one Forum and concentrate all discussion.)
DNA Testing the Smart Way                      
1.  Find and Join Project
2.  Find  the right test
3.  Order a test
4.  Access Personal Page 
5.  Post your Pedigree
6.  Receive your Results
7.  Update Personal Page 
8.  Understand Results
9.  Upgrade, if needed
10.Join forces with kin!   

                   

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