For many that want to order the DNA tests. I had my brother do the Ancestry DNA test but I am considering doing one for myself. I am the one in my immediate family who does genealogy but you can have many tests attached to yours. If
you are the one that orders the test you will have access to the
results. If they want access as well, they can open guest accounts and
you can have the results copied to them as well. A question was asked about why have sibling doing tests. In
answer to those saying the brothers results will be the same as hers,
that is not true. One inherits 50% of their DNA from each parent but
each sibling inherits different DNA. It's like serving a fruit salad.
Even if you serve the same size proportions the fruit mix will vary in
each serving. I like that fruit salad analogy.
As
of right now, autosomal raw data from all three major companies
(23andMe, FTDNA, Ancestry) can be uploaded to GEDMATCH.com (a free
site). FTDNA is the only paid site that accepts transfers
from other companies although they currently do not accept transfers
from 23andMe's new chip (V4). If you tested with 23andMe within the
past six months, it will be on this new chip which is incompatible with FTDNA. All AncestryDNA tests can still be transferred.
~Trish~
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