Family Tree DNA is the oldest and largest (and for me the most genealogy friendly). Ancestry recently joined with a different lab to market DNA products. The benefit of the new DNA-Genealogy tool, is being able to take your DNA result and compare it with others with the same surname. You could visit both of their websites and see if they have a Fleming surname project that you can join (with FTDNA you get a good discount by joining an existing project). At any company's site you should be able to link up with others who have your surname and are getting tested - the only way to use the DNA is to compare with others and find a common ancestor. Jim Bartlett -----Original Message----- From: fleming-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:fleming-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rhonda Cooper Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:25 PM To: FLEMING@rootsweb.com Subject: [FLEMING] DNA projects I would like some information concerning DNA projects now being used to assist in genealogy research. How do you know which service to use? I know of one provided by Ancestry.com and another at familytreedna.com. If they are different services then, are they not separate databases not sharing information? How does one choose? R Cooper ****************** list administrator fleming-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FLEMING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Jim: I totally agree with you. I have dealt with familytreedna and have been very happy with them. Also, once you get the results from familytreedna you can upload them to ysearch.org (Y-DNA) and/or mitosearch.org (mtDNA) at no cost and see how the results match others from around the world. Jeanette --- Jim Bartlett <jim4bartletts@verizon.net> wrote: > Family Tree DNA is the oldest and largest (and for me the most genealogy > friendly). Ancestry recently joined with a different lab to market DNA > products. The benefit of the new DNA-Genealogy tool, is being able to > take > your DNA result and compare it with others with the same surname. You > could > visit both of their websites and see if they have a Fleming surname > project > that you can join (with FTDNA you get a good discount by joining an > existing > project). At any company's site you should be able to link up with > others > who have your surname and are getting tested - the only way to use the > DNA > is to compare with others and find a common ancestor. > > Jim Bartlett > > -----Original Message----- > From: fleming-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:fleming-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On > Behalf Of Rhonda Cooper > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:25 PM > To: FLEMING@rootsweb.com > Subject: [FLEMING] DNA projects > > I would like some information concerning DNA projects now being used to > assist in genealogy research. How do you know which service to use? I > know > of one provided by Ancestry.com and another at familytreedna.com. If > they > are different services then, are they not separate databases not sharing > information? How does one choose? > > > > R Cooper