Just received by Ancestry DNA results...

[Minnieccat]

Thanks for reply. Results were downloaded and sent to familytreeDNA and Prosapia Genetics. I would be interested to hear about other programs/software I could download to.

[Craclyn]

Suggest you also consider gedmatch.com as this is a site where there are uploads from FTDNA, Ancestry and 23andme.

[Minnieccat]

Jeanne. Look this up on google and found the following information: Even though siblings share half their DNA, they can share any number of markers in a DNA test.  They might match up at all of them or none of them.  Or more likely, they will match up at some number in between.

This might seem weird at first.  After all, two siblings share half of their DNA.  So they should share of half their DNA in a DNA test too, right?

Well this would be true if a DNA test looked at all of a person’s DNA.  Unfortunately, very few of them do.  Instead, they look at only 15 or 20 out of millions and millions of possible spots.

Because these tests look at so few markers, by chance, one sibling might end up sharing only some DNA at the markers tested.  Or they might not share any DNA at all.

[jaybelnz]

  .  Umm yeeessss! OK!

Thank you so much for that, - I think!

Seriously, I really appreciate your looking that up for me, and I will study it diligently until it penetrates what little grey matter I have left after being in the 18th century for the last week or so!

Thanks again😃
Jeanne

[Minnieccat]

To Craclyn, Thank you for the suggestion of the web site gedmatch.com. I have now downloaded the results to them.

[hmserge]

Do these websites cost money?
I've had a look at a couple and saw a fee on one.
Are there any you can download results to but are free?
Thanks

[Minnieccat]

None that I know of. My feeling is don't waste your money until they get a lot cheaper!

[100%Gog]

I transferred my Ancestry DNA data to FTDNA for free yesterday but a message came up telling me I had to get three other friends to do the same thing before it was free or pay US$39. As I did not want to drag anyone else into what I suspected was a chain letter type of sales pitch I decided to pay the US$39. What did I get, not much really apart from a couple of pages of matches which to be honest was little different to what I already had with Ancestry.

The FTDNA website had a number of tabs to click for various types of processes and results but seemed to involve parting with your money at each step of the way.

There was a section on MyOrigins which I hoped would confirm something similar to what Ancestry had for me but all that appeared was a demo. There was however a blue bar at the top of the page showing 95% complete and the words "You're almost done! We'll finish processing your results in 3-5 business days". I am hoping that this is to process my DNA raw data and come up with an ethnicity estimate similar to Ancestry, if not then I will feel conned.

100%Gog

[davidft]

There was however a blue bar at the top of the page showing 95% complete and the words "You're almost done! We'll finish processing your results in 3-5 business days". I am hoping that this is to process my DNA raw data and come up with an ethnicity estimate similar to Ancestry, if not then I will feel conned.

Yes its just a case of being a little patient.

You my find that ftDNA gives a different result for your origins for perfectly valid reasons as have been discussed in various blogs and in the ftDNA forum (and maybe on the Ancestry forum although I have not looked at that)

At least you could transfer your results. I have just had a reply back from Ancestry saying they do not, presently, allow people to transfer results into them which is disappointing as I wanted to see how their shakey origin tool would have interpreted my autosomal results.