I know this has been addressed numerous times, but please humor me. I want to get my wife a DNA profile for her birthday. I have seen a lot of ads for this service but need your expert opinion (off list so as not to clog the system with something old ). Which site(s) are reputable? Thank you, Rick Fogle

Take your pick FTDNA.com has mtDNA and FamilyFinder (essentially autosomal) 23andMe.com has autosomal with health report Ancestry.com/DNA has autosomal (sorry no mtDNA or YDna) Read their sites and decide. David Samuelsen On 6/1/2016 4:45 PM, Rick and Kathy Fogle via wrote: > I know this has been addressed numerous times, but please humor me. > I want to get my wife a DNA profile for her birthday. I have seen a lot of > ads for this service but need your expert opinion (off list so as not to > clog the system with something old ). > Which site(s) are reputable? > > Thank you, > > Rick Fogle

I guess you might want to make clear how you are going to use the testing. If you are going to use the autosomal test to help prove or disprove your paper trail, I would use the Ancestry DNA test. Our family has tested with six people, and I really enjoy getting out the pedigree charts and marking where we match with other people. They have a very large database of people to match with. Our family's tests have proved that we are on the right track with a couple problematic ancestral lines. And I have solved a couple other family lines that I would not have solved otherwise. That being said I have recently ordered the Family Finder test from FTDNA (also an autosomal test). Since we had the Y-DNA test for a male ancestor there from 10 years back, I am hoping that we might make some different comparisons. My test has not come back, so I cannot weigh in on whether this is helpful or not. I do not believe from what the representatives told me that the paper trail comparison works the same way. Perhaps someone will weigh in on this. If you just want the ethnicity profile and not compare to databases with paper trails, it probably does not matter. There are companies like 23 & me that include medical information in their results, but I understand that one can take their raw data from Ancestry and share it with some free sites which will interpret the medical issues. You might want to google DNA issues and read up on some of the myriad of postings. Margaret Scheffler -----Original Message----- From: Rick and Kathy Fogle via Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 6:45 PM To: ROOTS-L Subject: [ROOTS-L] DA testing I know this has been addressed numerous times, but please humor me. I want to get my wife a DNA profile for her birthday. I have seen a lot of ads for this service but need your expert opinion (off list so as not to clog the system with something old ). Which site(s) are reputable? Thank you, Rick Fogle

I would actually like to see responses on this. I have Ancestry DNA. Actually you could search the archives, but there might be new opinions. Lori -------------- I know this has been addressed numerous times, but please humor me. I want to get my wife a DNA profile for her birthday. I have seen a lot of ads for this service but need your expert opinion (off list so as not to clog the system with something old ). Which site(s) are reputable?