I support every part of Tammy's message. Bill Australia -----Original Message----- From: GENEALOGY-DNA [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tammy Sent: Monday, 27 November 2017 11:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DNA] Questions about Autosomal Tests Hi Lindsey, I have tested oh, probably more then 15 people in both my biological family and my adopted family, (since they couldn't have children, I wanted to preserve their dna record, might help other people someday). I've done all my testing at FTDNA, (sale on now). I prefer the cheek swab at FTDNA to the saliva test of ancestryDNA. I feel that more cells are collected with a cheek swab. I've tried to test my oldest living people on my lines, sort of as a gift to their future descendants. Once their gone, the chance to preserve that is also gone. I think the more people who test, and as time goes on, the larger the databases get, the better it will be for all researchers, going forward. FTDNA is not membership based, so no membership fees. They keep some of your dna, should you want to order different tests that they order, later on... so you don't have to do swabs again. I recommend everyone who tests, (at any company) download their raw data, and upload it to http://gedmatch.com, so many people from, I think, up to 4 or 5 different testing companies can compare their results there. Again not a membership based site, you just register, log on and enjoy the community. I refuse to use ancestryDNA, so I'm hoping that many people who do, will upload to gedmatch.com, so that I might have a chance to find my match to them, should there be one. I think that ancestry gets a lot of people to purchase their tests, because of the marketing they do. I hope my thoughts have helped you decide what you need to. If it comes down to how useful first cousin testing can be. I'd say yes it can be very useful now, and as more people test and add themselves to the databases... the better it will become. I've also tested my youngest grandchildren, hopefully the mix of their dna will again help some other people in their quest to find out more. Take care, Tammy BC Canada ~ ~ ~ Webmaster http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cotyroneireland/index.html http://tammymitchell.com [email protected] On 11/24/2017 6:04 AM, Lindsey Britton wrote: > Last week I used two coupons to order FF for 2nd cousins of the half blood who share a great-grandmother. Both descend from her daughter, one from the daughter's son, the other from the daughter's daughter. Consequently both are on the great-grandmother's X line. > > This great-grandmother was from Prince George County and loss of records has prevented me from identifying her grandmothers. I'm hoping that X line information from the two half-blood cousins plus my results (I descend from the son of the great grandmother's son) will help me find others related on this line. > > Later generations of these families frequently married their cousins so I wouldn't be surprised if the parents of this great-grandmother were related. The grandparents of my half-blood cousins were first cousins. > > I see that FF is a Black Friday special and am considering a test for my first cousin who descends from my father's sister and is also on this great-grandmother's x line. > > I think buying tests for cousins in the pursuit of elusive ancestors is pure speculation and am not happy about doing it. How much value does the list think the first-cousin comparison would be likely to add? > > Another question. Ancestry tests are on sale for Black Friday. Is it true that Ancestry sells results to medical researchers and that those who don't subscribe do not get full access to matches or cannot contact their matches? > > Lost Cousins is promoting Ancestry over FTDNA because of the larger database but if you don't have full access to the database unless you subscribe its size is irrelevant. Furthermore, I don't need 9000 matches many of whom know nothing about their ancestors or have Ancestry trees full of mistakes--I need only a few good matches with sound pedigrees. > > The main advantage I see at Ancestry is Mt-DNA information which, in this case, could be useful. > > Lindsey > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message