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    1. FERMANAGH-GOLD -Family Tree DNA
    2. I think it is beneficial for FG members to know that Family Tree no longer accepts a transfer of DNA results from the National Geographic Genographic Project, IF you live in the USA. Last Christmas my daughter spent over $100 to give me the gift of the National Geographic Test Kit which we thought would also be able to be transferred for FREE to the Family Tree system. Once we received our DNA results from NG we went to the FTDNA web site to transfer them to FT. After we entered our NG test kit ID number into the transfer site we were informed it was invalid because they no longer accept NG results. We called FT for an explanation, and they said they stopped accepting NG results since November 2016, IF you live in the USA. We complained that their current web site still advertises that they are the DNA partner of National Geographic, and we purchased this more expensive test based on their current web site advertising. We considered their web site to be at best misleading, and at worst fraudulent. They were unapologetic, but now their web site says they are the international partners of National Geographic. However, people in the USA still can not transfer their DNA results, and do not know that until they go onto the Transfer site to do the transfer. Apparently Family Tree does not include the USA as part of their international family. So be it. Now we and any one we know in the USA will use the Ancestry DNA test, even though we do not like Ancestry due to their attempt to monopolize the genealogy world. Jim Dix Wisconsin, USA

    06/27/2018 08:19:20