In a message dated 10/15/2004 12:17:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Hi, I am descended from Curtis & Farrell. What is this project all about? > Carrie in Ca There are dna studys and two types of dna male and female . The usual type is male because the y dna is past from father to son and basicly doesnt change much in thousands of years. So you can shoot out a straight line and connect with matches . These matches have probablities by how much they match the more they match the closer they are Female mtdna is passes from mother to son he doesnt pass it on and mom to daughter they do pass it on. So you have your moms mtdna your brother if you have one has you moms mtdna and his dads ydna your daughters and sons will get your moms dna thru you .Your brothers sons get your dads dna I hope thats clear These projects like FARRELL are usually ydna with the hope to find some common ancestor. lets say there are 50 farrell males in ARDAGH Ireland where the Farrell Clan is located and I bet there is. You could test them and see if they are all decended from the same Farrell. Now if they tested these FARRELLS and lets say there are two separate ydnas close but separate. Now a FARRELL from Chelsea Ma. could test ,along with a Farrell from VA. John B. FARLEY's line tests, and one of yours from CA. You could find that all three are from Longford. Now maybe they match one or the other lines of FARRELLS either way you just found a ton of cousins. And the more FARRELLS that join expands the amount of FARRELLS lines that connect .and you get more FARRELLS . Do you see the picture? Maybe we find decedents of the two males in Ardagh MTDNA Suppose you are a member of the Chelsea dna project and you are a female CURTIS and you have connected up to my DENNING cluster. Your a ggggg grand daughter of the Kate FARLY mentioned in the original post.I have the cluster in front of me and I see a direct line of Pink lines from Kate to you. You should have Kate's mtdna. Now this cluster is over 200 families in size and streches across my computor screen kate had say three daughters .Turns out they went in separate directions with some grand daughter marring a LYNCH who already was in the cluster. So that line shoots across the screen. So today when her grand daughter lives in Virgina,this lady also has a line of pink lines going back to Kate farley. Both of you whould have kate FARLEY'S mtdna but not her name FARLEY This is how the chelsea project will work. Now not all clusters are that big and some are suggestive of conections. Due to the fact 1880 and before. Maiden names were only on marriage records I have tons of Mary ,Margrets ,Eliza, Ann and others mtdna can conect to these too You can read more information from the link below. Probably the best since you are not really tied to Chelsea is if you have a brother get his dna tested because you can do your dads and moms dna with him. In the study for his Surname. Most companies keep the original sample and allow you to slowly upgrade til you get what you want. Both projects will show alot but the mtdna needs documentations to probably connect unless you have paper work and a good knowledge of the conection URL: <A HREF="http://www.familytreedna.com/public/FARRELL%20DNA%20Project/">http://www.familytreedna.com/public/FARRELL%20DNA%20Project/</A> TITLE: The FARRELL DNA Project DESCRIPTION: Are you a Farrell,Farley or a variantlets get you in to see where you are connectedall variants welcomed Project Goals:to get all the branchs of the world connected on one tree. why dont you get your branch started now. HIGHLIGHTS: FARRELL FARLEY DNA SURNAME STUDY Jim Denning using dna to connect Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning- carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,M a.-sprague- and ever growing list