I'm glad to hear that you prefer FTDNA. The price at 23 and me was tempting but I didn't want to be restricted to one-to-one comparisons at GEDMATCH. I have two kits there now and will transfer results for my two half cousins at the first opportunity. I have eleven first cousins, but only one has expressed any interest in testing and she isn't related to the 3rd great grandmothers I am trying to find. I decided to begin with the half blood cousins because any significant blocks of DNA we share will probably have come from our common great-grandmother although I wouldn't be surprised to learn that we are related on other lines, too, but any such relationships would be considerably more distant. I'll be interested to see how much DNA the half-blood cousins share with each other since their grandparents were first cousins. Testing these cousins is an experiment for me. I'm not optimistic about finding my third great-grandmothers, but I wanted to try because the sister of one of the cousins I am testing gave me a gold locket (c late 1850s) last year which was owned by the mother of our great-grandmother and probably given to her by her husband. It contains her (Mary's) picture, her husband's picture, and the pictures of two young men who must have been their oldest sons. Lindsey Lindsay, if you are looking for related descendants from early ancestors you need as many different DNA results from relatives as you can get, particularly if you are looking for connections at the third cousin level and beyond. I personally prefer FTDNA, as it has the widest range of test types, and the invaluable ICW tool, plus the ability to download to GEDmatch to compare with people who have tested elsewhere. The older 23andMe tests would be good, but V5 recent ones are less valuable as, although they can be downloaded to Gedmatch, they can only be used in one-to-one tests there. I tested at 23andMe in the days of V2 tests, and results up to V4 are fine for modern comparisons but I wouldn't recommend new tests there. Ancestry tests are useful, particularly if you are all North American testers, and they are also downloadable to Gedmatch, and FTDNA. Whatever you do, I would suggest you download all tests you have access to, or can influence, to GEDmatch, where you can compare yourself and your relatives to everyone else in that database, plus you have control over default values, which can be very useful if you are looking for distant cousins. Belinda