If you're considering an autosomal DNA test, You can get two tests done at a good price by testing at Ancestry.com and then doing an autosomal transfer to FTDNA's Family Finder database. The cost for the Ancestry test is roughly the same as the Family Finder but there may be some features at Ancestry DNA that one cannot access with a subscription to Ancestry.com . Anyway, anyone that purchased an autosomal DNA test at Ancestry (or purchased a test at 23andMe that was processed by 23andMe's lab between Nov 2010 and Nov 2013) can create a FREE autosomal upload account at FTDNA, The FTDNA free accounts are limited to the first two pages of strongest matches, the FTDNA free autosomal accounts cannot communicate with the Family Finder accounts and most extra features are disabled except for FTDNA's chromosome browser HOWEVER the free autosomal accounts can be upgraded to "Family Finder" accounts by either paying $39 or by getting 4 others to sign up for a free FTDNA autosomal upload account using your own personal reference link. Below is my brother's reference link. He needs 2 more to sign-up for a free autosomal upload account for his own free account to be upgrade for free to a full "Family Finder" account. https://www.familytreedna.com/autosomalTransfer?atdna=F1QeXuYeQKoW6majKI6acQ%3d%3d ------ If your primary interest in an autosomal test is the ethnicity analysis, then choose the 23andMe's test, In this regard they are much superior to either FTDNA or Ancestry. On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Jack Wyatt via <[email protected]> wrote: > Y-Chromosome DNA is strictly paternal line. If you haven't dome any DNA > testing, this is what you need to get someone to give you for Christmas > (maybe give it to yourself): > > https://www.familytreedna.com/family-finder-compare.aspx > > > Ancestry.com and 23andMe offer essentially the same test. Serious > researchers upload their results to GEDmatch.com when they receive them so > that they can compare with people that tested with other services. > > Autosomal DNA tests like these help find common ancestors (i.e. locate > cousin relationships) and the sex of the people being compared does not > matter. > > Hope this helps. > > Jack Wyatt > > > ________________________________ > From: Stephen Scarborough via <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:30 PM > Subject: Re: [LL] LOVELACE Digest, Vol 9, Issue 218 > > > Thank you for that information Lou Ann, it did help. I wish I would be able > to go back further. I do apologive on the year of Velmar's death as I meant > to put 1973. Would you happen to have any life stories of any of the > Lovelace's that I'm related to? Also, if I was to do a Y-Chromosome DNA > test, would it reach into the Lovelace side since Velmar is my Great > Grandmother? > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Thank you for that information Jack and Bert. My main focus is to find where my heritage lies on all aspects of my family. Which type of test would you recommend and who do ya'll recommend going through? When I do the test, what exactly will it tell me when I get the results back? Will it tell me who some of my ancesters are or would it mainly point me to people that are alive that have the same DNA type? On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Bert Pittman <[email protected]> wrote: > If you're considering an autosomal DNA test, You can get two tests done > at a good price by testing at Ancestry.com and then doing an autosomal > transfer to FTDNA's Family Finder database. > > The cost for the Ancestry test is roughly the same as the Family Finder > but there may be some features at Ancestry DNA that one cannot access with > a subscription to Ancestry.com . > > Anyway, anyone that purchased an autosomal DNA test at Ancestry (or > purchased a test at 23andMe that was processed by 23andMe's lab between > Nov 2010 and Nov 2013) can create a FREE autosomal upload account at > FTDNA, The FTDNA free accounts are limited to the first two pages of > strongest matches, the FTDNA free autosomal accounts cannot communicate > with the Family Finder accounts and most extra features are disabled except > for FTDNA's chromosome browser > > HOWEVER the free autosomal accounts can be upgraded to "Family Finder" > accounts by either paying $39 or by getting 4 others to sign up for a free > FTDNA autosomal upload account using your own personal reference link. > Below is my brother's reference link. He needs 2 more to sign-up for a > free autosomal upload account for his own free account to be upgrade for > free to a full "Family Finder" account. > > > https://www.familytreedna.com/autosomalTransfer?atdna=F1QeXuYeQKoW6majKI6acQ%3d%3d > > ------ > If your primary interest in an autosomal test is the ethnicity analysis, > then choose the 23andMe's test, In this regard they are much superior to > either FTDNA or Ancestry. > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Jack Wyatt via <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Y-Chromosome DNA is strictly paternal line. If you haven't dome any DNA >> testing, this is what you need to get someone to give you for Christmas >> (maybe give it to yourself): >> >> https://www.familytreedna.com/family-finder-compare.aspx >> >> >> Ancestry.com and 23andMe offer essentially the same test. Serious >> researchers upload their results to GEDmatch.com when they receive them so >> that they can compare with people that tested with other services. >> >> Autosomal DNA tests like these help find common ancestors (i.e. locate >> cousin relationships) and the sex of the people being compared does not >> matter. >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Jack Wyatt >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Stephen Scarborough via <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 1:30 PM >> Subject: Re: [LL] LOVELACE Digest, Vol 9, Issue 218 >> >> >> Thank you for that information Lou Ann, it did help. I wish I would be >> able >> to go back further. I do apologive on the year of Velmar's death as I >> meant >> to put 1973. Would you happen to have any life stories of any of the >> Lovelace's that I'm related to? Also, if I was to do a Y-Chromosome DNA >> test, would it reach into the Lovelace side since Velmar is my Great >> Grandmother? >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > >