Just got this from FTDNA. Don't think I would really want to wear that T-shirt in public. It can have several interpretations. Besides, I'm not really sure how this family finder works, and I'm sure the Pace Society does not want to shell out that kind of money to see, and I would not advise any single donor to do so either. Wonder how many Group Administrators will have the ready funds for a "test" of this new service? Roy Johnson Family Finder Updates We apologize for sending this email twice, but we needed to make a correction to the email link below. As you know from the email we sent last week we have begun a limited rollout of our newest product, the Family Finder. The pre-launch has gone very well and later this week we'll be uploading the first 48 samples that customers ordered last week, during the initial hour of the rollout. We expect to 'stress test' the system and deliver results for 1 full plate (96 samples) next week, and 2 plates (192) the following week. Processing will be ramping up to several hundred kits per week. We are now prepared to offer to each of our Group Administrators the opportunity to participate in the 2nd phase of the pre-launch of this exciting new tool. Each Group Admin may select one kit # that He/She would like to order a Family Finder test at the introductory price of $249. In addition to that, as a token of appreciation to our Group Administrators, each Group Administrator ordering a Family Finder test will receive a commemorative t-shirt, the motto for this new test: "Sex doesn't matter anymore". To let us know which kit you want in this Phase II offer, please email <mailto:FFPhase2@familytreeDNA.com?Subject=Family%20Finder%20Beta> FFPhase2@familytreeDNA.com and provide us with the kit # of the testee. This kit number must NOT begin with a D. We'll have more exciting news about Family Finder and our participation in the "Who Do You Think You Are" conference this weekend in London when Max and I return. Family Tree DNA is the official sponsor of that conference's DNA Workshop. Bennett Greenspan President Family Tree DNA C All Contents Copyright 2001-2010 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd.

I haven't been following the Family Finder testing too closely, but I do know that Family Tree DNA is not the first company to offer autosomal DNA testing.    Autosomal testing allows both men and women to test DNA for common ancestry - with a fairly good confidence level up to 5 generations.  Autosomal testing results are not limited to just a person's surname line or a mitochondrial line.  One of the other family DNA projects I follow has used autosomal DNA testing along with the Y-DNA testing, but it only has a handful of participants in the autosomal testing at this point. For more information about Family Tree DNA's new Family Finder testing, here is a link to the FAQ's: http://www.familytreedna.com/faq/answers/17.aspx Rebecca Christensen --- On Tue, 2/23/10, Roy Johnson <royj@webster.edu> wrote: From: Roy Johnson <royj@webster.edu> Subject: [PACE] Message from FTDNA To: pace@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 10:12 PM Just got this from FTDNA. Don't think I would really want to wear that T-shirt in public. It can have several interpretations. Besides, I'm not really sure how this family finder works, and I'm sure the Pace Society does not want to shell out that kind of money to see, and I would not advise any single donor to do so either. Wonder how many Group Administrators will have the ready funds for a "test" of this new service? Roy Johnson Family Finder Updates We apologize for sending this email twice, but we needed to make a correction to the email link below. As you know from the email we sent last week we have begun a limited rollout of our newest product, the Family Finder. The pre-launch has gone very well and later this week we'll be uploading the first 48 samples that customers ordered last week, during the initial hour of the rollout. We expect to 'stress test' the system and deliver results for 1 full plate (96 samples) next week, and 2 plates (192) the following week. Processing will be ramping up to several hundred kits per week. We are now prepared to offer to each of our Group Administrators the opportunity to participate in the 2nd phase of the pre-launch of this exciting new tool. Each Group Admin may select one kit # that He/She would like to order a Family Finder test at the introductory price of $249. In addition to that, as a token of appreciation to our Group Administrators, each Group Administrator ordering a Family Finder test will receive a commemorative t-shirt, the motto for this new test: "Sex doesn't matter anymore". To let us know which kit you want in this Phase II offer, please email <mailto:FFPhase2@familytreeDNA.com?Subject=Family%20Finder%20Beta> FFPhase2@familytreeDNA.com and provide us with the kit # of the testee. This kit number must NOT begin with a D. We'll have more exciting news about Family Finder and our participation in the "Who Do You Think You Are" conference this weekend in London when Max and I return. Family Tree DNA is the official sponsor of that conference's DNA Workshop. Bennett Greenspan President Family Tree DNA C All Contents Copyright 2001-2010 Genealogy by Genetics, Ltd. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message