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Online use of Surname DNA Journal is free and open to anyone accepting and meeting the terms of our Privacy Policy

If you would like to be notified of new articles and information in the genetic genealogy field from Surname DNA Journal or want to make comments and access information limited to registered users, please send a short email to info@surnamedna.com explaining your area of interest and we will be glad to put you on the list. We love to hear what city and country you come from so that we can keep up with where our readers come from as well.

Due to the many robotic cyber attacks on open web forms, we have discontinued our user logins and subscription forms.


Note that each user account and email address must be unique and can only be registered once.

Existing Accounts

If you already created an account but can’t remember your password, click here to have a new password emailed to you.

If you don’t see the email within 5 minutes

If you cannot find a message from info@surnamedna.com, BE SURE TO CHECK YOUR LOCAL AND SERVER-LEVEL JUNK MAIL PHOTOS FOR MESSAGES FROM info@surnamedna.com.

wordpress@surnamedna.com or surnamedna@yahoo.com

Finding Spam Folders:  Unfortunately many email hosts and services are pushing mail from new correspondent domains like SurnameDNA.com into junk mail, trash or spam folders at both the server and mail client level.  You can help by finding our message and marking it ‘Not Spam’.

Here are some resource articles on retrieving email from junk or spam folders from some of the larger providers:
Gmail: Missing emails! Have you checked your spam folder? 
Outlook: Recover a Message from the Outlook Junk E-mail Folder
Comcast / Xfinity: Filters in Xfinity Connect
Yahoo: Where is my junk mail folder in Yahoo Mail? I can’ t see it!?
Hotmail / MSN: How can I search for an email in my junk folder?