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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: slaw on Monday 23 September 19 14:02 BST (UK)

Title: DNA test
Post by: slaw on Monday 23 September 19 14:02 BST (UK)

My daughter has asked for one for her birthday, need some advice on which one to buy

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: melba_schmelba on Monday 23 September 19 17:53 BST (UK)

Quote from: slaw on Monday 23 September 19 14:02 BST (UK)

My daughter has asked for one for her birthday, need some advice on which one to buy

I'd go with Ancestry, the cousin connections are not really matched by any other service. The ethnicity thing is just a bit of fun really - you should also realize every sibling differs by 50% from each other, so if you have some distant ancestor of some exotic ethnicities, some siblings may have those genes and others not. I'd say 23andme is probably a bit better at detecting trace ancestry.

This should work for 20% off today only (£63 +£10 P&P). Otherwise if you can wait until Black Friday in November you might get it for as little as £49 from Amazon with free P&P

https://click.email.ancestry.com/?qs=2e8c4fcf9486dedd0f71d912b71a3fe08397e07bb34c9611c8b42f8434184b54df9c1c915ddc36ef8b914e21018f0a5194ea5aadce1dfa5cdb8d532232a6cf47

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: slaw on Monday 23 September 19 18:14 BST (UK)

Thanks for replying Melba, will have a look at your suggestions.
Sheila

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: Gadget on Monday 23 September 19 18:18 BST (UK)

 I echo what melba says - go with Ancestry and upload your results to the other sites.


Gadget

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: Gadget on Monday 23 September 19 18:23 BST (UK)

Some discussion and links here that  may help:

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=813856.0

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: slaw on Monday 23 September 19 18:25 BST (UK)

Thanks Gadget

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: davidft on Monday 23 September 19 18:38 BST (UK)

I am not a big fan of Ancestry's DNA test.

At the end of the day all the sites have their advantages and disadvantages.

What you need to decide is what you want from the test. Until you know that you can not make an informed choice of which test to take. In my opinion no one should advise you to use one site over another without first knowing your requirements for the test.

And to show I am not biased against Ancestry I will mention that I have tested with Ancestry, FTDNA.com and Living DNA and had a free upload to MyHeritage.

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: Colin D Gronow on Tuesday 24 September 19 12:48 BST (UK)

Quote from: slaw on Monday 23 September 19 14:02 BST (UK)

My daughter has asked for one for her birthday, need some advice on which one to buy

Slaw  take a look here:

https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart?fbclid=IwAR0oi1SFwdjtKU3ALXm6ZtN1PNSGV6xwfxcch1Q9sR-K88ShXfEmMgGnq4A

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: Craclyn on Tuesday 24 September 19 12:51 BST (UK)

I would also agree wtih taking an AncestryDNA test then uploading to other sites. You can view your match list on Ancestry without an account subscription, but be aware that you would need to subscribe to see the full trees for your matches.

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: melba_schmelba on Thursday 26 September 19 09:35 BST (UK)

Quote from: slaw on Monday 23 September 19 18:25 BST (UK)

Thanks Gadget

Now 25% off until 6th October, so £59 + £9.99 P&P

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/dna/

Caveat repeated, that it will possibly be £20 cheaper if you can wait until the end of November.

Title: Re: DNA test
Post by: Ruskie on Thursday 26 September 19 09:42 BST (UK)

When uploading to other sites keep in mind that there is generally a cost involved to ‘unlock’ some of the features.