I am recruiting males with a Curd surname and for a minimum 37 markers upgrading to a Big Y in most cases. The project has two main aims. 1) To find all possible Curd male-lines so that a testing member can attach himself to a family in the future. 2) Extend the research in some cases to distant ancestors to find where Curds came from in ancient times. So far I have identified two main YDNA family groups and origins. The "English"(R-U198) arriving in Eastern England in 1500 BC (before the formation of a present day surname) and the "USA" (also R1b) latterly from Virginia and Kentucky who appear to come from the north-west corner of the UK. The project doesn't normally support a Family Finder test but, if I am aware that you are the first in your family to test in the project, I will probably start with that to confirm your results and then I will test a Y37 for your family Haplogroup and if you want to find your male-line origin and I do, too, I will pay for an upgrade. One source of Family-Tree you can check for your American heritage is in Dan Curd's newly published book (2020). (The YDNA is a different Haplo-group from the "English" family). Email; danscurd@gmail.com Of several Y DNA "English" Curd families in the project as follows, the U198 family of Buxted (SSX), London (MDX and Cambridge), Flaunden/Sarratt, (HRT), Canterbury (KENt), Rawreth (ESS). (The Rye Curd family are related to the other Curds way back in the twelfth century and may not have been called Curd until more recently, they just happen to have the same YDNA). The second Curd family from Maidstone, Kent, area also doesn't go back far in time as surname Curd and are likely to have started out as the main U198 family but is now a new generation. All six branches (of 1) are YDNA "R1B U198" haplogroup and the project is upgrading testing to a "new normal" of Big Y-700 which can help with the timelines of male generations. The two branches of the Maidstone family shows a common ancestor of more than 200 years ago from Yalding and Wateringbury, Kent. (Big Y tested). Please don't hesitate to email me curd@one-name.org with some history and family-tree and read the Curd profile page at The Guild of One-Name Studies web site and we can talk about the project. Members of the project own their samples and results and they can decline to show or share them but in most cases I hope they will allow project administrators to access results and discover new Curd mysteries.