DNA testing?

[Elizabeth]

I have done Ancestry's Autosomal test, just sent in a sample to 23andme, uploaded my Ancestry results to GEDmatch.com, and will add my results from 23and me to the Family Tree database when I get them. These are the autosomal tests. Since I am a woman no Ydna for me and the mtdna shows very little at this point. It's addicting! It's also a bargain right now due to a price war, Ancestry is 99.00, 23and me is 99.00, and you can upload to FTDNA for 69.00 as of this day.

DNA testing is in it's infancy. If you test now be prepared to be patient as the science moves ahead. Each company database has different sample bases and has their own interpretation of samples. Ancestry is getting ready to update their admix at the end of the year, I'm looking forward to see what the update shows as I administer 4 tests there.

http://www.scottishorigenes.com/ is only for ydna, so no use for your wife. She will have to do one of the autosomal tests to get any useful results.

[SeumasA]

My experience with FamilyTreeDNA is that it is great for finding genealogical connections (or ruling them out). However, if you're looking for deep ancestry it takes a little more work. They do have a page on ancestral origins. But those origins are just from asking each person they test the birthplace of their most distant known ancestor. If you want something more scientific you have to do some digging on your own. Once you have your results, you can upload them to somebody like Ysearch.org and compare them to the modal haplotypes. The scottishorigenes.com site listed above looks interesting. I may have to look into it a little more.

[Oldhiker]

Here is the link to the biggest and first company in the genealogy DNA testing business. http://www.familytreedna.com/ they have a database of almost 250,000 people tested. One industry problem is lack of uniform testing from company to company making comparing results from one database to another. That doesnt mean a smaller company is doing it wrong just different markers and nomanclature.