First, a few facts about Sinclair/St. Clair Research

Sinclair/St. Clair Research is a not-for-profit group of individuals who are interested in furthering our study of genealogy by making use of DNA testing. This is a global project to test members of the Clan Sinclair everywhere.

The project is run by Steve St. Clair of New Jersey, Stan St. Clair of Tennessee and Iain Laird in the UK.

This project has been created and run with a great deal of effort as a result of our interest in the Clan. It is entirely voluntary for all managers of the project. Nobody involved makes any money out of this.

The US organisers have invested over USD 1,200 out of their own pockets to do this research. They have done so and we support them because we
are all proud members of Clan Sinclair and want to further the goals of the clan. We are not affiliated in any business sense with Family Tree DNA. We use them as our testing lab. They give our members a discounted rate for testing with them. After careful consideration of several labs, they proved to be the most thorough to us. And consistency of testing method is critical to the success of any DNA project. Of the money you pay Family Tree DNA, Sinclair/St. Clair Research gets nothing.

We do not charge any money of any member of this project. Nobody pays us to participate. That is the definition of  a not-for-profit. Each of us holds down a full-time job and we do it in our spare time.

You do, however pay Family Tree DNA to test your mouth scraping kit and results. They are a laboratory based in Houston Texas. The are a for-profit company. Their costs are fair and compare favourably with other testing labs. See http://www.familytreedna.com  But do not sign up there...

Let us  make one more thing very clear. If you follow our Application to Join at left, we will send you a link that will get you into the Sinclair/St. Clair discount ordering page at Family Tree DNA. If you go to Family Tree DNA through the link on our site, and then order, you'll get a $60 discount on the 25-marker test. Follow the "Application to Join" link at left to understand this even more.

In order to participate in the project the 25 marker test is essential.

If you have any questions, please e-mail me.

Letters of recommendation are available upon request via email.
 

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