Using Your Project’s Website at WorldFamilies.net
Worldfamilies.net offers free websites to any project at FTDNA. 
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WorldFamilies.net sets up project websites for all the FTDNA Projects we administer.
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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:
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It is the only place where you can see your results and your pedigree lined up with all the other results and pedigrees in the project.
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It is also the place where the Project Administrator can present information about the project and its findings.
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The project forums provide a place for project members to post information and ask questions.
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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:
Things you need to know about the Project's website at WFN:
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To return to the WorldFamilies.net Home Page, click the logo
in the upper left corner.
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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)
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Make this a Favorite Project--
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By clicking this link and clicking "Join" you are joining a WFN Surname Community (Group) of users who are researching this surname.
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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.
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Joining a WFN Surname Community (Group) gives
you a link to that project under "Favorite Projects"
whenever you sign in.
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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.
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Project Home-tells the purpose of the project, or can be special information from the Project Administrator, specific to this project.
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Patriarchs --the page showing submitted pedigrees (at present, not limited to project members).
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These are usually posted in chronological order, linked when possible.
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Some project administrators show pedigrees by lineages
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Look for names and places that link to your own pedigree.
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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).
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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
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Click here to see the Hodge/Hodges Patriarchs Page
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Information on submitting your pedigree for the Patriarch's Page
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y-Results -- the page where the yDNA test results for project participants are displayed in a table, grouped by haplogroups and lineages.
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Forum --the forum boards for the project let any interested researcher post any information or questions about the surname, the dna project or dna testing.
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Pedigree -- the Pedigree forum to post your pedigree.
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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.
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Disc --the discussion page for your project--Project Administrator can use this as a newsletter or information board.
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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.
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"Help" --where to look for the information you seek, Allows you to email us directly.
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mtDNA" --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
