Persons with the BANKS, BANKES or BANCKS surnames are invited to join. Only males have Y-chromosomes, so only male BANKS,BANKES,BANCKS, surnames can participate. If you are female, you can have a male BANKS, BANKES, BANCKS relative submit a sample for your line. To participate meaningfully, testees will need to share their direct male line ancestry back to the earliest known BANKS/etc., in the form of a pedigree (excluding living persons).Ray Banks is paying for testing for eligible persons. Contact him at dnagrouper2@gmail.com explaining where you found this information.
Further detailed info on Ray's large project pertaining to many of U.S. Bankses at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hhmBNM2yMFkjobinshn6wyg-BEI2lE--YGWxNlNsPKY/