Step 4: DNA Tools

Using Your Project’s Website at WorldFamilies.net

Worldfamilies.net offers free websites to any project at FTDNA. 

• WorldFamilies.net sets up project websites for all the FTDNA Projects we administer.
• Project Administrators can choose to use a WorldFamilies.net  website instead of or in addition to the FTDNA Project Public websites.

Why the project's website is important: 

• It is the only place where you can see your resultsⁱ and your pedigree lined up with all the other results and pedigrees in the project. 
• It is also the place where the Project Administrator can present information about the project and its findings. 
• The project forums provide a place for project members to post information and ask questions. 
• You can join the Surname Community for the Surname by logging in and clicking "Track" on the project's webpage left sidebar. (other great features coming soon)
   

Find a link to your project’s website in any of these ways:

• Search here:   

  Project Name:

• OR -Go to the Surname Projects page at WorldFamilies.net to do a search for your project's website.
• OR -Go to www.familytreedna.com and do a search for a your surname.
• On your personal pageⁱ at FTDNA, you will see a link to the website for any project you have joined.  More about your FTDNA Personal page
• If there is no project for your surname, WorldFamilies.net will set one up. 
  More about requesting a project or a website at WorldFamilies.net

  Click here to open an email to request a project or a project website.
   

Things you need to know about the Project's website at WFN:

• To return to the WorldFamilies.net Home Page, click the logo
  in the upper left corner.
• Project Navigation Bar at the top of the project website pages contains links to any of the project webpages. (Note: Project Administrators can choose to display all or some of these links)

  

• Track Project--this link in the left sidebar appears only when you are logged in.
  • By clicking this link and clicking "Join" you are joining a WFN Surname Community (Group) of users who are researching this surname. 
  • Joining a WFN Surname Community (Group) does NOT make you a member of the Surname DNA Project at FTDNA--you have to be tested at FTDNA for that. 
    
  • Joining a WFN Surname Community (Group) gives
    you a link to that project under "Favorite Projects"
    whenever you sign in.
  • Coming soon--other great features

Use the menu bar across the top of your project's website to navigate to each page of the website.  Patriarchs and y-Results pages will be of most interest right away, but take a look at all the pages to learn more about the project.

• Project Home-tells the purpose of the project, or can be special information from the Project Administrator, specific to this project.
• Patriarchs --the page showing submitted pedigrees (at present, not limited to project members). 
  • These are usually posted in chronological order, linked when possible. 
  • Some project administrators show pedigrees by lineages
  • Look for names and places that link to your own pedigree.
  • To contact the submitter of the pedigree, use the contact information at the end of the first line (change the AT to @ and remove the spaces). 
  • The kit numbers are shown in red at the end of the pedigree, so that you can correlate the pedigree to the yDNA results on the Results Page
  • Click here to see the Hodge/Hodges Patriarchs Page
  • Information on submitting your pedigree for the Patriarch's Page
• y-Results -- the page where the yDNA test results for project participants are displayed in a table, grouped by haplogroups and lineages. 
  • Click "Notes for Understanding Results Table" above the results table or scroll to the bottom of the Results Page for explanation of the results table.
  • Click here to see the Higgins-O'Higgins Results Page
  • For more information on understanding your results on the Results Page. 
• Forumⁱ --the forum boards for the project let any interested researcher post any information or questions about the surname, the dna project or dna testing. 
  • You must be logged in to post.
  • More information about registering at WorldFamilies.net
  • More information about WorldFamilies.net Forums
• Pedigree -- the Pedigree forum to post your pedigree.
  • You must be logged in to post.
  • More information about registering at WorldFamilies.net
  • Some people find it easier to submit pedigrees through an email.
  • Click here to send your pedigree to WorldFamilies.net for posting on the Project's Patriarch Page.
• Order --the project order page at FTDNA.  This will give you the project price for yDNA tests, which is less than ordering as an individual.
  • More information about choosing the right test
  • More information about ordering a test
• Disc --the discussion page for your project--Project Administrator can use this as a newsletter or information board.
   
• Join Project -- explains how to join the project, either by ordering a test through the project, transferring into the project, or re-testing through FTDNA.
   
• "Help" --where to look for the information you seek, Allows you to email us directly.
   
• mtDNAⁱ" --a page with more information about mtDNA testing.  While mtDNA tests are not useful for surname projects, some projects display project members' mtDNA test results here.  More information about mtDNA