Eilish, Sorry to hear that you had so much trouble! I and my Fermanagh descendent cousins have tested with ft-dna, so I hope more Fermanagh people will do so. I want more matches. Looking for Ross, Nixon, Acheson, Bustard and Watterson people! As you say, paying the regular way with a credit card works. My friend ordered 4 kits a short time ago, and they have made it “all the way” to Canada. Just a quick correction...men can take the mt-dna test or mitochondrial dna test. One of my cousins did. He now knows he belongs to his mother’s family.’ As his mother was born out of wedlock. However, a man’s son will only have his mother’s mitochondrial dna. He cannot pass mt-dna on to a son or a daughter. Only the mother passes it along. It is really worth listening to a podcast on You-Tube by someone such as Dr. Maurice Gleeson. He explains the basics very well. Otherwise you have little idea how to handle your dna results. Anne in Ottawa From: Eilish Gmail Sent: June 24, 2018 9:18 PM To: fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com; Eilish Subject: FERMANAGH-GOLD -My experience with Family Tree DNA tests Hi All, Many of you have had your DNA done through various companies, whether it be FT, Ancestry, 23 and me or another. Here's what happened to me. A friend and I decided to get both our autosomal and mtDNA  tests done through FTDNA. Obviously we are both female. FTDNA advertise that they accept Paypal. They do and they don't. We started this odyssey in January and what started as a fun and exciting excursion into what lies inside became a nightmare. First, we couldn't pay by Paypal as advertised, but had to go through an administrative process, the likes of which would make getting into the Kremlin inner circle a walk in the park. A series of increasingly infuriating encounters with the most brain-addled staff kept my friend and me in a state of waiting and explaining and re-explaining what we wanted, ie. to pay via Paypal as advertised. We live in different states so there was no connection between us as customers other than the absolute failure of this company to give a link that would work to a Paypal process for which it is clear Family Tree would prefer not to use. We were both independently sent links that did not work, yet they insisted they did. So they'd send another. I asked why they didn't they just have a Paypal button to click at the check out like most vendors. No reply. My friend, after six months has given up. I told them their service was so poor that if they had any business sense they would try to remedy the situation by sending a free kit since they were able to offer such huge discounts for Mothers Day. No reply. I kept getting emails that I had not paid for my kit. I kept telling them I had received no viable link to pay them. This has gone on for months. Both of us have put in complaints. As they are located in Houston there was a phrase I was dying to use! The final outcome is that after 6 months , a test arrived in my mail box last week. It was a  yDNA test. As mentioned, I am a female. If they can't read what's in my cart, I no longer trust them enough to give them my DNA because I might get the results of someone else's scrapings given their track record so far. Anyway after 6 months, I have given up on them. Not come across such appalling service in years. So if you want to use PayPal rather than give out your credit card details to a bunch of morons, beware of FTDNA. If you use your credit card there are likely no problems. Not at least in the short term. Eilish On 25/06/2018 8:59 AM, Bonnie Anderson wrote: > Family Finder is autosomal DNA. Mt DNA and Y DNA can also be ordered on > FTDNA. > > Bonnie in Kitchener > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 10:29 PM, Carl Maguire <cmaguire@northwestel.net> > wrote: > _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/postorius/lists/fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com/ Archives: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com/ Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community