What is Ysearch?
Ysearch.org is a publicly available and searchable database on the internet, sponsored by FTDNA, but open to anyone regardless of where they were tested. Once your test results have returned, the upload is a few easy clicks from a link on the “Y-DNA Matches” tab of your member page. Even if you upload your data to Ysearch, your anonymity is still maintained if you so wish. At Ysearch, only the test results and surname of the test subject are necessarily displayed. You have the options of including the name and origin of the most distant ancestor, uploading a GEDCOM, and/or revealing your name as the contact person (if you wish to remain anonymous, just enter “name witheld” in the contact name field). Visitors contact you via a form that reveals neither your name or email address, giving you the option whether or not to respond and reveal yourself. The question then becomes, why upload to Ysearch? One reason is to seek a match in a larger database, one that includes individuals tested a
