I'd love to be able to check out my mom's ancestry, but it is JOHNSON and that ranks somewhere around 6 in most common, I understand. I'd better stick with the Y lines I can prove in a direct line for now. Thanks to all of you for your input. I was so lost as to where to place my faith in the testing. So many offer to do this, but the proof is in the pudding, I guess. Of the responses I have gotten, it seems FTDNA wins an overwhelming response. > Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 17:38:17 -0700 > From: hiplainsdrifter4229@yahoo.com > To: tnlincol@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [TNLINCOL] DNA question > > > > --- On Sat, 10/3/09, Donna Hanlon <dehanlon47@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Donna Hanlon <dehanlon47@hotmail.com> > Subject: [TNLINCOL] DNA question > To: "Lincoln ct TN List" <tnlincol-l@rootsweb.com> > Date: Saturday, October 3, 2009, 6:00 PM > > > > I would like to check my Swaner DNA. I have located a direct line of males(father to son) from my generation directly back to our first known Swaner born 1790's. > > > > I have also found a Swanner line supposedly linked with ours that is also a direct male line back to its first known ancestor born 1850 LCT. > > > > Also have found the direct Y line for my Beavers family dating back to 1840 AL. > > > > All these would be a straight back male link or Y chromosome strain (no females break the line). > > > > My question is, since there are so many companies offering this research, who is the best and most affordably priced? AND who is most reliable and easy to read? I am also interested in checking for the Native American strain in both Beavers and Swaner lines. > > > > Your opinion matters very much to me. Thank you. Donna Hanlon > > I agree with the other reader about FamilyTreeDNA. They are probably the oldest and most used program of this type. You might do well to check out their website. I am going to use them in the next few months myself to do a YDNA37 mtDNAplus level check with male and female lines. I think it is $299 to do it. A12 chromosomal test isn't enough really to help you, and statistically I there very little more that you can find with a 67 chromosome test that you can with a 37. The 67 costs $399.There are 5,600 family surname projects listed with FamilyTreeDNA. > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141665/direct/01/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNLINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/177141664/direct/01/