William, I personally haven't taken part in this project but have been following it with great interest. DNA and genealogy has really taken off, while many poo hoo the idea. Several of the RootsWeb surname lists I'm on have started projects for the surnames though http://www.familytreedna.com/ and are very pleased with the results they get. There's also a gentleman on the RootsWeb BANAT (Donuschawbean) list who has very recently started a project for people who have ancestors from the Banat region in Europe. A non-Hungarian friend of mine has taken part in a surname DNA test from the above named website with very interesting results being put in contact with at least two new Scottish cousins whom he found out grew up within a few miles of each other in Scotland. I've been able to share how thrilled this gentleman has been with his results. You'll note on the National Geographic website provided by another lister , they state their database is really not for tracing your ancestors. The familytree dna testing is much more thorough with many more identifying factors provided for finding cousins. My friend found out, once he got his results from familytree dna, for an additional $15.00 he could submit his DNA results from familytree dna to the National Geographic Society to be added to their data base and receive their analysis. He feels for $15.00 he has the best of both worlds as he couldn't do it in reverse by doing the National Geographic testing first. The results are completely different from both testings, and very interesting indeed. Advice from my friend would be to read up on the various DNA tests available and know exactly what you're expecting from the testing and choose the right test for your interests. He thought it was very reasonable that the National Geographic would accept the other testings. He's just glad he did the familytree dna testing first. Ayne wmako <wmako@neo.rr.com> wrote: From: "wmako" <wmako@neo.rr.com> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 18:32:04 -0400 To: HUNGARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [HUNGARY-L] National Geographic Genographic Project I was wondering if any of you Magyars out there took part in this project by submitting your DNA and what the results were. I took part and its amazing that from the map I received that my origins are the same DNA from present Hungary to a distant part of the east. I would be glad to answer on a personal basis any of you that have participated in this experiment. Sincerely William Mako --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre.
Sorry, I meant to add these two links of interest to my previous message. - list of RootsWeb's various surname and regional DNA lists - http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/DNA/ http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/DNA/GENEALOGY-DNA.html - a general DNA discussion list. I see by the archives this list can be very technical when discussing their results as well it generates between 1000 and 2000 messages a month, so you may want to browse through the archives for interest. --------------------------------- Win a BlackBerry device from O2 with Yahoo!. Enter now.