BELL DNA PROJECT Sign-Up

Eligibility

Any male with surname BELL is welcome to join our project. Females may also participate in our studies by using a living, male, close relative (with the BELL surname) as surrogate for the Y-DNA testing. Females may also participate in a mtDNA test.

For full participation, you must complete a descendants chart, or a list of your known ancestry (to the best of your ability), and submit it to our webmaster. This should include dates and place of birth, dates and place of marriage (and spouse name), dates and place of death, for as many generations as possible, to assist in analysis. If you have no knowledge of your ancestry, it does not exclude you from testing to possibly learn your ancestry!

It is possible to order a test kit without fully participating in our study. If this is what you desire, the above requirement does not apply. You will receive match notifications, but no analysis or any other benefits that follow full participation. You will only receive a certificate with your test results, and password access to the testing agency website. We will still add your results under our project privacy codes to our results web page, for you to see possible matches.

How To Join

If you have any questions about our project, or ordering, you should first contact a project administrator - see contacts at the bottom of this page. If you are ready to place an order now, choose of these links for the test agency you want to use:

Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) - FTDNA offers lower prices for participants who join through this project. Current FTDNA prices are posted on this page.

You will receive instructions with your test kit on how to collect a DNA sample (cheek swab) and where to return the test kit. When your DNA sample is received by FTDNA, you will be given log-in access to your personal FTDNA web pages.

DNA Heritage (for BEAL - BEALL - BEALS - BELL Surnames) - DNA Heritage does not bill you until after their lab receives your DNA sample. The minimum order is for 23 markers at a cost of $137.77. The complete 43 marker test will cost $189. The tested DNA will be held for three years, or until you request it be destroyed.

Be sure to send a descendants chart, or a list of your known ancestry, to our webmaster. We suggest that you visit some of the DNA-related websites we have listed. These will help answer many common questions people have about DNA testing for genealogy.

Matches

Be sure to enter or upload your test results to Ybase and Ysearch to increase your chances of finding matches. Provide your User ID or Record ID to the webmaster, and he will post it on the haplosearch page.

If matches to another participant are found, that participant may be contacted to see if ancestry data can be exchanged. Project administrators will facilitate this exchange, only if there is mutual agreement. No pedigree or contact information will be made public without your consent. By default, only your privacy code and Y-DNA test results will be revealed on our website. If you desire to be contacted directly by other participants or researchers, you must request that your email address be posted on our haplosearch page.

Craig Nelson <cengold@aol.com> Administrator, Member of Clan Bell International, Sons of the American Revolution (SAR). Garry F. Bell <gazza@woosh.co.nz> Co-Administrator, Computer Genealogist, Member of New Zealand Society of Genealogists. Stuart-James Beall <bell.ancestries@earthlink.net> Webmaster for Beal, Beall, Beals, Bell DNA studies.