Feel free to use this email to bulk-email your project members when new results have been posted on your project's Results Page, or create your own. Sending bulk emails whenever there is anything new on the website is an excellent way to bring members back to the project website, allow members to see new developments in the project, and perhaps post a pedigree if they have not done so.
Subject: New Results Posted for the __ DNA Project
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New test results have recently been added to the Results Page for the Surname Project. Please take a moment to take a look at the page and see if you have a new match, or if the results help define the branches of the family tree.
The most important thing this project does is to correlate genealogies to DNA results. If your DNA Result does not show your Earliest Known Ancestor, please provide it by replying to this email. We need the man’s name, birth date and place, and wife’s name. When you don’t have all this information, please provide specific and identifying identification.
I post results using the participant’s earliest known ancestor whenever I can, and I also place the test participant’s code identity number (or kit number) next to his pedigree to provide even more information.
You can either post your family’s pedigree on the Pedigree Forum, or you can send it to me by email. I’ll then post it on the project’s Patriarch page, along with the researcher’s name and email address, as well as your code identity number (or kit number) to link it to your test results. [Please follow directions:
http://worldfamilies.net/postpedigree.html]
Patriarch Page:
To post your pedigree, click on "Add your pedigree" at the bottom of the Patriarch page or click on the link "Pedigrees" on the right side of the light gray menu bar.
Useful links:
The World Families home page, with lots of DNA and project information: www.worldfamilies.net
