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note: projects mostly login protected
note: projects mostly login protected
Unlike the corollary Branches, which are often focused on an earliest male surname-bearing ancestor and looking at their descendants down the tree to the present time, (Autosomal) DNA Studies are usually focused around a current Member and their pedigree up the ancestral tree and thus back in time. Basically, mimicking how people tend to build genealogical databases starting with themselves and close, known family members.
Branches, in most western European cultures, tends to be focused on the surname and patriline down from an EKA. And thus have yDNA haplogroup studies that correspond with them. Autosomal (atDNA) studies tend to occur around genealogical databases that start with the tester (and/or researcher) and work upward and outward. Like the Autosomal DNA Studies here. So associate DNA Studies with particular researchers, their genealogical work, and their autosomal matching of relations with common ancestors from the last 200 years.
On our sister H600 site, we bury the Autosomal Study Projects beneath the lowest level yDNA branch. As they exist solely to support the branch study work. And you may see an autosomal DNA Study cross listed under a Branches here for similar reasons. But, in general, autosomal studies are about lots of surnames that exist in a testers family within the past 200 years or so.
Special autosomal DNA Studies or unique projects may also be below a members own personal page. But likely still behind login and not visible to the general public.