The purpose of the Clan Chisholm DNA Project is:

•To identify others who are related and to bring together related people who may have scattered to many countries of the world.
•To assist Chisholms of various spellings and other historically related groups to find cousins, determine family location and movement, and determine clan branch or cadet line.
•To help people prove or disprove theories regarding their family history or ancestry with an additional resource.
•To give participants another tool to help with breaking brick walls in genealogical search.
•To investigate through DNA the deeper ancestral roots of the Chisholm clan.
•To share with other project managers information on Scottish and Highland genealogy.