Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,
Heres wishing you the best of fortune finding new information on your family tree and
maybe even some new relatives to share happy stories with. Sharing and working together
brings multiple rewards.
Several new participants have joined the project this month, using the yearend discounts
provided by Family Tree DNA. All FTDNA customers have also received additional discounts
from FTDNA that can be used to order additional products or given to a second party to
learn of potential genetic cousins to your DNA lineage. FTDNA has released will release
the last of these discounts in a coupe days, there are still codes released three days ago
that are valid for the next tow days. I encourage you to send the discount codes you
receive but do not intend to use to someone you think will use them along with the yearend
discount to provide you possible aid in your family history search. If their family
surname is a variation of Carr, they are also welcome to join the Carr Project at FTDNA.
Ways to share the codes,include posting the codes to this list or on the Carr Genealogy
Facebook page where many people interested in researching Carr ancestors look for
information. The more people we bring into the project the better chance we have of
finding the relative with the missing information we are seeking. Of course, often that
person is not interested in doing a genetic test as they are satisfied with the
information they have, so we do sometimes have to persuade them to join by paying for the
tests ourselves in order to achieve our goals. These discounts can help us do that as
well.
If you are not a Family Tree DNA customer and want to join, let me know and I will see if
I can provide you a discount code.
FTDNA Carr Group Order webpage:
http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Carr
Carr family DNA is also on Facebook, the newsfeed is public and contains posts from many
Facebook genealogy pages, so join us there as well.
https://www.facebook.com/carrfamilydna
Use the Facebook Carr Family DNA Genealogy and Kerr Family Genealogy Group pages to post
the codes or information on your Carr or Kerr Families, as well as for general Carr/Kerr
ancestry discussions.
Carr Family DNA Genealogy Project
Kerr Family DNA Genealogy Project
Yours truly,
John Carr
Carr Surname Genetic Genealogy Project Administrator
Carr Group Administrator for Family Tree DNA - a volunteer position