Forums are a great way of conversing with many people on the same topic. People researching particular surnames are the best people at looking after, and encouraging debate in, a forum.

If you are interested in DNA, how it can be used to connect up surnames and would like a forum of your own, we can create a new one for you with you in charge. Ybase is already well-known amongst 'genetic genealogists' and so will help attract people to your discussion.

As a moderator, you'll get notification whenever anyone writes to your forum, you can keep an eye on the content with editing capabilities and with us looking after the software side of things, your job is just to help the discussion on how the surnames you are researching could be connected.

If this sounds like you and you'd like to run your own DNA/surname forum please register, enter your details below and we'll get you started.

Once set up, you can use the forum as an extension of your own site and link directly to it.