Announcements of changes at Family Tree DNA and to the FTDNA website. This is also for general communications by FTDNA staff.

This forum is for customers to talk about features they would like to see. It may also be used to report potential website issues and account bugs, though you may get faster service by sending those through the Open a Request feature found in the Customer Service link at the top of the forum page.

This is a good place for chatting about off topic subjects and just having fun together. Keep the humor PG13 and things friendly please.

This is a place for free and open grumbling, griping, and venting about anything and everything about DNA, companies, and genealogy that irks you. You may even come here to complain about the Forums and how they are run.

Everything you wanted to know about DNA and Genealogy but didn't know where to ask. This board is open to customers and visitors.

How DNA helped solve a family brick wall. We encourage you to publish your story here. This board is open to customers and visitors.

This is a forum for adoptees and descendants of adoptees to share their research experiences and exchange information as well as tips. This board is open to customers and visitors.

For talk of scientific papers on population genetics, archaeology, and anthropology related to DNA and personal ancestry testing.

Do you have results from Genographic? Are you considering testing with them? This board is open to customers and visitors.

All may view this forum, but you must register and sign in to post.

All may view this forum, but you must register and sign in to post.

Users can exchange advanced information here on mtDNA testing, results, and questions. You must register and sign in to view or post in this forum.

This area is for talk about BIG Y results.

This is an area for those who are new to DNA testing for genealogy can ask about Y-DNA STR based tests and their test results. All may view this forum, but you must register and sign in to post.

This forum is for those new to personal ancestry testing on the direct paternal line with Y-DNA SNP tests. All may view this forum, but you must register and sign in to post.

Users can exchange information here on Y-DNA testing, results, and questions.

Users can talk about SNP based tests such as single SNP testing by Sanger sequencing, Geno 2.0 chip based testing, and next-generation sequencing tests like BIG Y.

Advanced discussion about Family Tree DNA's Family Finder Product.

This forum is for newbie topics about the X-Chromosome. All may view this forum, but you must register and sign in to post.

Advanced topics about X-Chromosome matching and anthropologic blocks based on SNPs and/or STRs.

Discussion forum for Project Group Administrators. Exchange experiences, ideas and interpretation of results.