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We at Upfront with NGS are very excited to have brought you this four
part series from Roberta Estes on DNA testing and its genealogical uses. Thanks Roberta!
If you missed part 1, click here.
If you missed part 2, click here.
If you missed part 3, click here.
Article
courtesy of Roberta Estes, www.dnaexplain.com,
e-mail
Roberta at [email protected]
or [email protected].
Graphics
courtesy of Roberta, Family Tree DNA, www.familytreedna.com and the ISOGG wiki at http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Wiki_Welcome_Page.
Summary – Who Can Test For What???
Just to be
sure we all understand, here’s a handy chart that summarizes who can test for
what at Family Tree DNA and what you discover!
Type of Test
|
Who Can Test
|
What You Get
|
Mitochondrial
DNA – direct maternal line
|
Males and
Females
|
Haplogroup
(clan) and personal matches
|
Y-Line
DNA – direct paternal (surname) line
|
Males
only
|
Haplogroup
(clan) and personal matches
|
Autosomal
(Family Finder) – all lines
|
Males and
Females
|
Percentages
of ethnicity and personal matches
|
What About The Test…
You may
wonder why I recommend Family
Tree DNA for testing. It’s simple. They are the only DNA testing company that
offers the full range of tests and tools needed by genetic genealogists. They are the oldest company and have the
largest data base, in addition to tools that facilitate using multiple types of test results together. Family
Tree DNA has been wonderful to work with, sponsors free surname,
haplogroup, geographic and special interest projects and are infinitely patient
and extremely helpful. They are also a partner to the National Geographic Society and participants
from the Genographic
project can transfer results into the Family Tree DNA database for free.
Testing is
done at Family Tree DNA using a cheek swab that looks like a
Q-tip.
A test kit
is shown above. Just swab the inside of
your cheek, put the swab back in the vial and mail back to the lab. It’s that easy.
To see someone
collecting a sample from receiving the envelope in the mail to mailing it off
again, click here http://www.davedorsey.com/dna.html.
Receiving your Results
After you
receive your Y-line or mitochondrial results at Family
Tree DNA on your personal page, please consider our Y-Line or
Mitochondrial DNA Personal DNA Reports. Family
Tree DNA customers who have minimally tested at 37 markers for the Y-line
or the mtDNAPlus for mitochondrial can also order their reports directly through
Family Tree DNA on their personal page.
What you discover
from your own DNA will be priceless – and there is no other way to make these discoveries
other than DNA testing. Your DNA results
are notes in bottles that have sailed over time from your ancestor to you. Begin your adventure today, open that bottle
and see what secrets your ancestors sent!
Be sure to
sign up for the www.dna-explained.com
blog to keep current with genetic genealogy.
There is great introductory and educational material there as well, and
it’s free.
Happy
ancestor hunting!!!
Roberta
Estes
www.dna-explained.com (blog)
Copyright 2004-2013, DNAeXplain, all
rights reserved.
We hope you have enjoyed and found
valuable this four part series on DNA testing.
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series reflects the opinions and thoughts of Roberta Estes and that NGS does
not imply endorsement of any outside advertiser or other vendors appearing in
this blog. NGS is aware that there are
other quality DNA testing services not mentioned in this series.
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