Has anyone used either one of these sites to test their DNA? If so, did you find anything interesting?
Just did one for my daughter (adopted)
One thing to note is.each company has its own proprietary database, so each company is likely to have differing results to some extent.
Interesting, I would one day. - never have.
I did mine aboutthree years ago to compare with my sister, who is actually a half sister and has little history on her biological fathers family history. It revealed a little bit more for her. But then last fall I got an email from a stranger. A woman who had been adopted as an infant more than 50 years ago did the Ancestry DNA and matched as a very probable 1st or 2nd Cousin. She matched similarly to another of my known 1st cousins, making it almost certain that we were genetic family. There was a lot of drama and more that I won’t relate, but eventually the woman proved to be my first cousin once removed, and was put in touch with her birth mother. Pretty cool.
I did both Family Tree DNA and Ancestry DNA. It was fascinating. Both results were within a 1% of each other which confirms for me that they are extremely accurate. I did it to find my genealogy/ethnic makeup, since I'm from the Caribbean and we have such diverse histories.
I liked the idea ... but I wish I hadn't paid full price. That's true of most things though. Lol.
My doc wanted me to test for some medical stuff, and I didn't find it that helpful in that sense, but I think the other aspects of it seem kind of fun.
I used 23andme a few years ago. I think the real value is from importing that data into other services such as Promethease and Nutrahacker.
@Mark so right. Ancestry dot com doesn’t automatically show you all the data they have collected, but you can download it, once you find the instructions. Then you can upload it to other databases to increase your matches, and also see more specifically which chromosomes match more than others when comparing to another.
I did, and no, not many surprises. . . .
I tried 23andMe. Not very useful as far as ancestry goes, but it was somewhat useful in finding out things about my health. (I bought the Health + Ancestry Kit.)
Ive never done this. Do you guys actually send in blood or something? Not fully getting how it works
You send in saliva. I’m waiting on my kit. I’m really curious.
I definitely want to as just last year I learned I have Blackfoot Cherokee in my blood.
(praying for Kryptonian blood)
I have a patient whose daughter sent an ancestry kit for me to assist with as she wants to know things about her family heritage before he passes. He spot into a tube and it was sent in a couple weeks ago, still awaiting results
Through my mystery cousin adventure cited above somewhere, I’m came into contact with some serious genealogy and DNA tracking hobbyists. For those who take both the 23 and Me and the Amazon DNA screenings, the results are pretty consistent but the two services report differently so that for the person who has money to Burm, there might be a reason to do both. The consensus seemed to be that they liked the reports from 23 better, but with a much larger database and the links to regular (non-dna) Family trees on Ancestry, you will might find more links to the actual people to whom you are related, if that is your goal.
How much do these tests cost? I am very interested, especially to find out exactly native american blood I have in me, but cost is definitely a factor. Are they specific enough to show tribal affiliations? Jim
@ I_am_Poly... the list price on Ancestry was $99, but in the past months they have had sales for $89, even $69. But my great niece has a grandmother with Native American background, but didn’t reveal much. She did some poking around and found that Native DNA has not been researched adequately and is flat-out crazy hard to report on. I don’t think you’d get any tribal info at all.
My wife and I did Ancestry but there are separate pricing for DNA testing vs the Ancestry portion.