Family Finder

That means it can show matches with ANYONE else who has taken a Family Finder test who is descended from ANY of your 4x great grandparents.

We have decided to include the Family Finder results of anyone who has Adamthwaites in their ancestry, as part of the Adamthwaite DNA Project. This is an exciting new development, because it could potentially provide evidence about links within and between some of our Adamthwaite lines where we have been unable to identify living male descendants to participate in our yDNA test programme.

The Family Finder test currently costs $289 and because of the experimental nature of using this type of DNA test in a surname project, I cannot offer free tests from our extremely stretched General Fund, as we do for men taking the yDNA test (unless of course there is a millionnaire amongst you who would like to sponsor this innovative use of the Family Finder test!!).

However, ftDNA have recently had a sale of these test kits, and I took the opportunity to buy three kits at a really bargain price. So I would be willing to underwrite the cost of the kits to some degree if you would be prepared to make a contribution towards our General Fund.

HOW IT WORKS
You can read more about how the test works and what sort of matches you can expect to find on this page of my personal family history website.

If you are interested in exploring your own ancestry with this test, please go to our Adamthwaite Project page on the Family Tree DNA website and join from there, as this will ensure that your results are included in our Surname Project.

RESULTS
Detailed results spreadsheets showing the linked matches revealed to date are shown in a separate section of this site which is accessible to actual participants of the Family Finder project only (because they necessarily include the full names of the persons who have tested and those of all the people they match with).

However, I will update this page with summary outcomes as they are discovered:September 2010 - 3rd cousin match revealed between myself and another member of the OLIVE GREEN line of Adamthwaites - we are both descended from William Adamthwaite and Sarah Mason, who married in Brough in 1841

HOWEVER ... it should be remembered that yDNA testing of male Adamthwaite descendants is still the most reliable method of discovering distant links between our known Adamthwaite lines. I still have four FREE 37 marker test kits available for any male Adamthwaite who belongs to any of the following lines:BLUE lineVIOLET lineORANGE lineTURQUOISE lineLIGHT GREEN line plus a second volunteer from the YELLOW line
(though I am pretty certain that there are no longer any living Adamthwaite males from either the Turquoise or the Light Green lines!)