How Y-DNA Testing Works
Learn how Y-DNA testing can track the paternal line through the Y chromosome.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Who is Eligibility and How Do I Order a Test? See the Join Page.
- Who is Participating? Go to our Participants Page. Search on the names of counties where your earliest known Long ancestors lived.
- How Much Does It Cost? The regular group rate for a Y-DNA test is: $119 for the 37-marker test, $249 for the 111-marker test, or $449 for the Big Y-700 test. Check with the Group Administrator is see if any specials are in effect.
- View FTDNA’s pricing and product description page
- Donations are accepted. The Long Surname DNA Project is seeking contributions. Contributions are used to purchase test kits for Longs that are not interested in family history and/or are unwilling to be tested due to the expense. Click here to make a secure donation using a credit card.
- Is This Private and Secure? If you or your Long relative wish to remain anonymous, no problem! Just sign up as “Anonymous Long” or choose a fictitious name. Anonymous participants will be identified by their test kit number. Participants, whether anonymous or not, can also elect to keep their haplotype information private. See the Security & Privacy page.
- How Do I Get My Test Results? Test results can be accessed from the FTDNA Long Page which displays buttons that you can click on to get the specific Y-DNA or mitochondrial DNA marker values associated with each kit number. It may take several minutes for the data to appear. No actual discussion of results is provided. (Such discussions are typically carried-on between individual group participants having matching results.)