Welcome to the Mi’kmaq Tribe DNA project! The purpose of the DNA project is to discover and confirm the clan lineages and descendants of the Mi’kmaq Tribe of Mi’kma’ki, Turtle Island. Turtle Island includes North America, South America, the Artic, Greenland, and Saint Pierre Miquelon. A clan lineage is the YDNA or MTDNA lineage of a Turtle Island Tribe. A clan lineage of a Turtle Island Tribe is thousands of years old and predates the arrival of peoples foreign to Turtle Island. All people descending from a clan lineage of the Mi’kmaq Tribe are of Mi’kmaq ancestry. It is a cultural practice of Turtle Island genealogy to know the origin of a family lineage that marries into a Turtle Island Tribe. Establishing and confirming the inter-tribal and foreign family lineages that married into the Mi’kmaq Tribe are important to the pedigree and history of the Mi’kmaq Tribe. The pedigree of the Mi’kmaq Tribe is a public tree on Ancestry.ca called the Mi’kmaq Tribe Genetic tree. The Turtle Island Genealogy Blog provides updates about the Mi’kmaq tribal tree and DNA project. The Turtle Island Facebook group is a private genealogy discussion group. Please request to join the genealogy discussion group through Facebook. Links to all three resources are in the links section of this site. If you have a percentage of Turtle Island DNA in your autosomal DNA results than you descend from a clan lineage of a Turtle Island Tribe. If you have a Turtle Island mtDNA or yDNA haplogroup than you are a clan lineage of a Turtle Island Tribe. The Turtle Island Tribe you are related to depends on your relationship to the individuals, families, and clan lineages of a specific Turtle Island Tribe. To join the Mi’kmaq DNA project, you can test your DNA with Family Tree DNA or if you have already tested your autosomal DNA with AncestryDNA™, 23andMe©, or MyHeritage™ you can upload your autosomal DNA data results to FamilyTreeDNA for free and join the Mi’kmaq DNA project. The instructions for uploading your autosomal DNA results to Family Tree DNA for free is in the links section of this site. Thank you for the financial donations to the DNA project. Donations will upgrade YDNA clan lineages of the Mi’kmaq Tribe to the big Y700 test and to confirm the MTDNA clan lineages of unidentified Mi’kmaq women from colonial marriage records. Thank you for participating in the Mi'kmaq Tribe DNA project!