How can I use the Family Finder test for my Surname or paternal lineage group project?
The Family Finder test has many uses within a surname or paternal lineage project for bringing more people into your project and refining time to common ancestor calculations. The Family Finder test allows you to bring more participants from descendent lines into your project. Many men and women may be related to but lack a male cousin with the corresponding Y-chromosome DNA to test. If their relationship is within five or six generations of someone in your project who does have the Y-chromosome then a comparison with the Family Finder test for both people can confirm the relationship. With the Family Finder test, you will be better able to assign those without conventional records to the right branch in a lineage and determine closer or more distant cousinship to better define branches in a family tree. Because the Family Finder test offers finer grained determination of a relationship than even our Y-DNA67 test, it will help you determine if exact and one-off matches are recent or fr
The Family Finder test has many uses within a surname or paternal lineage project. It helps to, Bring into your project men and women who are related but lack a male cousin with the corresponding Y-chromosome DNA to test.Determine if exact and one-off matches are recent or from eight to fifteen generations back.Sort out the relationships for close or perfect Y-chromosome matches with other surnames.
