Here is the address to Ysearch: http://www.ysearch.org/ If you were tested somewhere other than FTDNA, you can open an account by clicking the "Create a New User" tab. If you were tested at FTDNA, do not open your account this way. Create your account from within your FTDNA member page. Not only is this way easier, because the FTDNA server will automatically transfer your results to your Ysearch account (entering them manually is tedious and prone to errors), it will link your FTDNA account with your Ysearch account, making it easier to access Ysearch. To do so... First, log in to your FTDNA member page. Over towards the bottom left, click the link to Ysearch.org, listed under the heading, "Tools." I can't walk you through the rest of the steps because I'm already a member (via my father's test). The server recognizes me and keeps offering up the page for me to enter my existing UserID and password, instead of offering the form to create a new account. But once you've clicked the Ysearch.org link, you should be able to manage OK by following the instructions given. FTDNA is the "900-lb gorilla" of DNA testing, but I'm always reluctant to tout them because I have six projects based there (five surname projects and a regional project), so obviously I'm biased towards them. Then again, maybe that's testimonial enough, that I chose FTDNA as the place to base my projects after carefully studying all the options. By all means, do not let the price of an introductory test be the only factor considered when choosing a lab. In the end, it can be false economy. Quite a number of my project members first got tested somewhere else, then were so dissatisfied, they ended up getting tested, again, at FTDNA, making their basic testing far more expensive than it needed to be. I have quite a bit of general information on my personal web site, including introductory information, that I've built up over the years as an aid to my project members. You may find some of it useful. http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/DNA-hub.shtml Good hunting, Diana P.S. There is a parallel site for mtDNA testing called mitoSearch: http://www.mitosearch.org/ If you want a UserID to play with at mitoSearch, mine is A4ABX. If you would like to play with a UserID at Ysearch, my father's is KBBX2. His mtDNA results were uploaded to mitoSearch, too, and it's the same UserID -- another benefit of joining from your FTDNA member page. > -----Original Message----- > From: brown-bounces@rootsweb.com On Behalf Of nbacton@aol.com > Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 4:25 PM > To: brown@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BROWN] All DNA testees > > I am not familiar with Ysearch. Could you give me the > address of this group? I agree with you about Ancestry. > It is written in very small print but everything you submit > to them is theirs to do with as they want. You have given > up all rights to your work. > > I have 4 DNA projects with FamilyTree and I have been > continuously please with their help and their support of > privacy. One research group has placed them at the top of > the list for DNA companies to use.