According to www.FamilyTreeDNA.com, the folks who are doing the testing for National Geographic, males get a 12 marker test. That can be shared with Family Tree DNA and more markers can be tested for the additional fee. Mildred "Mickey" Fournier 1730 SE CR 252 Lake City, FL 32025 mickey@se.rr.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Oldnail@aol.com [mailto:Oldnail@aol.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:51 PM > To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SC] A True DNA Story > > > In a message dated 2/16/2006 8:54:43 AM Eastern Standard > Time, Herb_316@msn.com writes: > > A True DNA Story (A necessary understanding in DNA testing) > by Herb Hendricks > > > Mr. Hendricks, > > What is the highest marker test that can be done? What lab > does your group go through? > > I was wondering if you knew anything about the National > Geographic Project that is inviting folks to buy a $99. DNA > kit to map out people across the world. It seemed to me that > it was more of a money-making venture in order to finance > the real interest which appears to be in gathering DNA > testing from isolated groups/tribes of people to determine > migration patterns and roots of those tribes. I'm wondering > how many markers that $99. test would provide. > > Your email was very interesting. > > Yvonne > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > SCRoots Query Board > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.orga nizations > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

Dear Mildred, That's the sad part of it. FTDNA then sends the inadequately tested person with the surname of your group to you. Then you have the responsibility of telling the poor soul he needs more testing to connect him to his family group within the surname. What fun it is to do the work the Company should have done in the beginning. We took the policy that if anyone wanted to be in our group they had to ask (when they asked we told them the whole story - more testing up to 37+ markers) and we did not just accept people that FTDNA shuffled over to us via their false promises program. To me the key in life is for responsible people to tell people all the fact and not use little white lies to get people into a DNA testing program. God Bless. Herb Hendricks Retired NASA Physicist Hendricks DNA Project Group Administrator Secretary Hendricks Family Association Herb_316@MSN.com<mailto:Herb_316@MSN.com> 1210 Long Meadow DR Lynchburg, VA 24502 434 832 7246 Major/Smith/Hendricks http://www.ftdna.com/public/hendricks/<http://www.ftdna.com/public/hendricks/> ----- Original Message ----- From: Mickey Fournier<mailto:mickey@se.rr.com> To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:49 PM Subject: RE: [SC] A True DNA Story According to www.FamilyTreeDNA.com<http://www.familytreedna.com/>, the folks who are doing the testing for National Geographic, males get a 12 marker test. That can be shared with Family Tree DNA and more markers can be tested for the additional fee. Mildred "Mickey" Fournier 1730 SE CR 252 Lake City, FL 32025 mickey@se.rr.com<mailto:mickey@se.rr.com> > -----Original Message----- > From: Oldnail@aol.com<mailto:Oldnail@aol.com> [mailto:Oldnail@aol.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:51 PM > To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Subject: Re: [SC] A True DNA Story > > > In a message dated 2/16/2006 8:54:43 AM Eastern Standard > Time, Herb_316@msn.com<mailto:Herb_316@msn.com> writes: > > A True DNA Story (A necessary understanding in DNA testing) > by Herb Hendricks > > > Mr. Hendricks, > > What is the highest marker test that can be done? What lab > does your group go through? > > I was wondering if you knew anything about the National > Geographic Project that is inviting folks to buy a $99. DNA > kit to map out people across the world. It seemed to me that > it was more of a money-making venture in order to finance > the real interest which appears to be in gathering DNA > testing from isolated groups/tribes of people to determine > migration patterns and roots of those tribes. I'm wondering > how many markers that $99. test would provide. > > Your email was very interesting. > > Yvonne > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > SCRoots Query Board > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.orga<http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.orga> nizations > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx> > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Subscription instructions are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/misc.html#SCROOTS<http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/misc.html#SCROOTS> ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx<http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx>