Join the Atkins Surname Project Website: www.familytreedna.com/public/adkins Description: ADKINS, ATKINS, or any reasonable spelling variation are welcome to join the project. Only males have Y-chromosomes, so only male ADKINS/ATKINS can participate. If you are female, you can have a male ADKINS/ATKINS relative submit a sample for your line. To participate meaningfully, testees will need to share their direct male line ancestry back to the earliest known ADKINS/ATKINS, either in the form of a pedigree chart or, preferable, family group sheets (excluding living persons). Surnames in Project: Adkins, Atkins Requirements: Since a Surname Project in essence traces members of a family that share a common surname, and females (a) don't carry their father's Y-DNA, and (b) acquire a new surname by the way of marriage, in order to be relevant to the Surname Project, the tested individual must be a male that wants to check his paternal line (father's father's father's...). The test to be ordered is either the Y-DNA12, Y-DNA25 or Y-DNA37, and females should look for a brother or cousin with that surname to be tested. Females can also order a test for themselves, which will be the mtDNA or mtDNAPlus, but the results of this test cannot be tied to the Surname Project. For more information see: www.familytreedna.com/public/adkins