Project: DNA

Are you interested in the DNA Project?

• Project Leaders: Karen Lowe
• Coordinators: John Kingman, Ginny Winslett, Kevin Guy Campbell; Team Leaders: Mags Gaulden, Peter Roberts, Ginny Winslett
• Add dna to your followed tags.
• We use DNA Project Google Group for communication.
• Look at one of the DNA project's example profiles to see what we hope for in profiles that are part of our project. Other excellent examples from our project and others can be found in the Examples Gallery.
• View the DNA Project Member List and see what our members are working on.
• Project Type: Full Project

If you've come to the project page because you want to ask a DNA-related question, head over to our G2G forum and post your question there. Be sure to use the tag DNA to make sure your post is seen by the right people.

If you would like to learn more about DNA, but are not ready to join the project, follow the DNA tag.

Project Mission

DNA Leaders Greg Clarke and Mags Gaulden with DNAeXplained blogger Roberta Estes at RootsTech 2023.

DNA is the new frontier of genealogy. It has become an important part of WikiTree's mission to connect the human family on one accurate single family tree.

The DNA Project is a way to organize those of us who are most interested in how WikiTree integrates DNA test results on the limbs we share on WikiTree. Our mission is to help members understand and use DNA information on WikiTree, manage DNA information accuracy, and expand DNA features in the One World Tree.

There are currently two ways to participate: the Innovators and the Educators. See the sub-project pages for goals and tasks to determine how you'd like to be involved. You are welcome to participate in both if you are interested!

Innovators and Educators Sub-Projects

DNA Innovators

Leaders: Mags Gaulden and Peter Roberts

The role of the DNA Innovators is to network with genetic genealogists both within WikiTree and in the global community, to drive innovation, and to help develop tools to be used in WikiTree to help others integrate their DNA results with their genealogical research. Innovators are bringing ideas and imagination to shape current and future DNA features on WikiTree.

General Innovator Tasks:

• Read and answer DNA questions in G2G.
• Read blogs and social media posts looking for ways to incorporate new ideas (or a new way to work with an old idea) into WikiTree's DNA features.
• Post ideas to Space:DNA Bright Ideas.
• Join the conversation in the Innovators Google Group.
• Design a process for gathering and vetting ideas for DNA features.
• Liaise with DNA Educators
• DNA Project Maint. Categories

Teams

• • Features Team
    • Team Leader: Peter Roberts
    • This team focuses on ensuring members are maximizing the benefits of our DNA features.

• • DNA Apps Team
    • Team Leader: Greg Clarke
    • This team works toward incorporating automation into DNA Features.

• • Networking Team
    • Team Leader: Mags Gaulden
    • This team focuses on bridging relationships between WikiTree and the DNA/Genetic Genealogy community.

• • Projects Liaison Team
    • Team Leader:
    • This team focuses on collaborating with various projects to determine how the DNA Project can help support them. This team also works with the DNA Educators.

• • DNA Categorization Team
    • Team Leaders: Kevin Guy Campbell, Mags Gaulden
    • This team collaborates with the Categorization Project to develop a structure for DNA related profiles/pages.

DNA Educators

Leader: Ginny Winslett

The goals of the DNA Educators Project are to:

1. Help people to better understand how to properly use the DNA features on WikiTree.
2. Help people better understand how to use DNA testing to provide additional confidence in their WikiTree ancestral lineage.
3. Help people manage DNA information accuracy.
4. Help those who have misused DNA confirmation understand their mistakes.
5. Find people who don’t understand DNA, so they can be taught.
6. Liaise with the Innovators Team to keep up on the latest news in DNA or newest WikiTree features in order to update or improve the DNA Educators’ tasks.

To view the Educators page, click here.

Teams

• • Confirmed with DNA Team
    • Team Leader:John Kingman
    • This team focuses on helping people properly use the Confirmed with DNA feature via:
      • Read and answer DNA questions in G2G.
      • Assisting with Data Base Errors 213 and 313 (missing confirmation statements).
      • Monitoring Relationship Changes related to confirmed with DNA.

• • • Helix Trail Team (No space Page yet)
  • Team Leader:Ginny Winslett
    • This team focuses on creating an implementing the "The Helix Trail" a guided, step by step educational virtual path on "How to work DNA on WikiTree". This will help WikiTreers gain greater knowledge on collaborating and building DNA connections.
      • Read and answer DNA questions in G2G.

Other DNA Resources on WikiTree

• AncestryDNA Circles
• DNA Painter

Other Info

• DNA Help Pages on WikiTree
• DNA Project Resources Page
• WT+ Error list; names with DNA in it
• We have our own WikiTree DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA. Here is the DNA stats page for our project! Join us if you have tested with FTDNA—it's quick and easy.