Anyone may join (females are welcomed). This tests the Y chromosome for genetic matches between males. This test will hopefully help determine name changes and everyone is encouraged to join this project. We will be able to group the members that match each other into their own group once we run the Y-DNA Family Grouping App (http://www.ydnagroupingapp.com/). See the link for further details on how this is done. For those that go all the way and test using the Big-Y700, it will be recommended to submit your BAM to www.yfull.com for analysis at a very low price of $49.00! Y-Full will give you more of a layman's understanding of that FTDNA BAM file. It will also put you in their Y database to see what matches you have there! It is very important that you come here with a Family Tree that has been populated as much as possible. It does no one any good having DNA matches and not able to locate them on your Tree. But this may be caused by what Maurice Gleeson calls the SDS (https://dnaandfamilytreeresearch.blogspot.com/2018/07/goodbye-npe-hello-sds-some-causes-of.html). All project members can view and update the activity feed when they are signed on to FamilyTreeDNA. Please log on to FamilyTreeDNA and provide your earliest ancestors' name, birth date, and birthplace - If you have not done so. You can do this by clicking on your name in the upper right corner and then click on the genealogy tab. Please have an open mind, a good Family Tree and polite communication when contacting your matches. Also, remember to designate a beneficiary for your FTDNA account. This is very important. Ole style of family research started in about 1998 using Personal Ancestry File (PAF) and going out to courthouses, cemeteries, churches, and face to face contacts. Familysearch.org has allowed me to do more higher level of family research since their datasets and documents are mostly online. Ancestry.com has really increased the findings of sources because of its numerous databases that are all online. FTDNA has allowed me to use DNA as another tool for family research. Y-Full has allowed me to get a more layman's understanding of the FTDNA BAM file and added another datase to have more matches. FTDNA Surname Projects has allowed me to get my fingers really dirty in the DNA side of genealogy. Social media site such as Facebook is another tool for family research. When users identify their relatives, it helps in my search also! Having FREE and online newspapers is a plus, especially the Georgia Historic Newspapers site (https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/). The Chambers DNA Surname Project began in October of 2002 and we have had wonderful participation. The Chambers DNA Surname Project was started so that we could identify common ancestors and we have had some success. Please log on to FamilyTreeDNA and provide your earliest ancestors name, birthdate and birthplace within your personal profile - If you have not done so. All of the results received, show that all Chambers and name variants belong to the same Haplogroup F that originated out of South Asia. Haplogroup F is the parent group of G, H, I, J, O, R, T and many others. Haplogroup F branches out to F1, F2, F3, F4, G, H, and IJK. Haplogroup IJK (also known as F-L15) branches out to I, J and K. Haplogroup K branches out to T, O, R and others. Click on the blue letters above to see how Wikipedia documents the Haplogroup tree. See yDNA Migration map here. See more information about DNA migration at http://www.eupedia.com/europe/european_y-dna_haplogroups.shtml