A MESSAGE FROM PAUL BURNS - BYRNE GROUP ADMINISTRATOR
I urge you to register your DNA with every possible data base. That is the only way researchers can make further progress in this field. Their studies are what we need to identify our own relationships. The tree has shown me, for example, that my closest relative of all the people whose DNA is in this data base is a person named Maxwell of Scots descent. We have a 34/37 match. I am registed with four data bases (in addition, of course, to FTDNA's own in-house registry). There may be others, but these are the prinicipal ones.1. www.ysearch.org - This YDNA data base belongs to FTDNA, but it is open to anyone tested anywhere.. For privacyt reasons (though I don't understand what they would be) FTDNA does not automatically upload your YDNA to it. You must do so either from your personal FTDNA page (each of us has one) or from FTDNA's home page. FTDNA will assign you an ID number.2. www.mitosearch.org is FTDNA's same-type registry for those tested for mtDNA. Same ID number as YSearch, and same joining procedures.3. www.ybase.org is DNA Heritage's data base for YDNA, and it is a parallel project to FTDNA's YSearch.4. www.smgf.org is a YDNA data base that was first started by the Mormons, then turned over to the Sorenson lab. Sorenson does not promise to inform people of matches but asks them to contrbute DNA for the general good. I do not know if one can join it using FTDNA's test results (I will have to experiment). I joined it via a no-charge separate test kit that they sent me many months ago. Hope this helps.