As far as I know, 23andMe does only SNP testing, not Y-DNA STR testing (like the standard 67 markers FTDNA). If your purpose is genealogy, you are *far* better off testing with FTDNA, which has a large and growing stable of genealogically relevant tests available. I would test at 23andMe primarily for medical reasons. One reason to test at FTDNA is that the people getting tested at FTDNA are doing it for genealogical purposes. You are far more likely to get a response from your matchees at FTDNA than you are at 23andMe. I've been tested at 23andMe, but I did it for medical reasons. I have yet to respond to queries from my matchees there and likely never will, which is the complaint of many who test there expecting to get responses from their matchees. As for the comparability of the RF and FF results, someone else will have to answer that one, because I've yet to attempt a comparison. Diana > -----Original Message----- > From: y-dna-projects-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:y-dna-projects- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rebecca > Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 7:27 AM > To: Y-DNA-PROJECTS@rootsweb.com > Subject: [Y-DNA-projects] Choosing a testing company > > Forgive a question from a 'not quite a novice anymore' lister, but your answers may > help others wanting to enlarge their testing results, but not knowing the best way to > proceed. > > We start from an adoption in my husband's paternal line. So 1/4 of my children's > ancestry is a mystery. Skipping over the obvious step of yDNA testing her father for > now....my daughter took the FTDNA Family Finder test. She's found 53 matches so > far, but we have not found her paternal ancestry.. Then 23&me offered a one-day > sale on its Complete Edition that includes Relative Finder. I took that. I've got 477 > matches so far which I am only beginning to explore. > > Now we think we will be able to persuade her father to be tested. We want to get both > the fullest yDNA test available and a cousinsage finder test. The 67 marker yDNA test > + the FF test from FTDNA is about the same price as a Complete Edition from 23&Me, > so price is not an > issue. I cannot figure out how many yDNA markers 23&Me tests, if > they test markers at all. (As a female, I did not get any yDNA data from my Complete > Edition test). I cannot figure out if FTDNA and 23andme raw data for Y can be > compared. From earlier postings on this list, it looks like FF and RF test different > snps, so are complementary, and not comparable. Whichever company we choose for > the cousinage test, will the data we already have from the other company be useless? > > How can I maximize the usefulness of the testing we have already done in choosing > this next set of tests? > > Thanks, > Rebecca > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to Y-DNA-PROJECTS- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject > and the body of the message