Category Archives: DNA Testing

Ethnicity Explained

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Mic Barnette

Roberta Estes in her DNA-Explained blog today reviewed the Ethnicity reports for Family Tree DNA, Ancestry, 23 and Me and Gedmatch, basically, all the genetic genealogy testing companies. Using her own results she described each test and explained the differences … Continue reading →

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Finding Your X-Chromosome Matches

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Mic Barnette

Finding Your X-Chromosome Matches Family Tree DNA recently added a new tool to the Family Finder results page, X-Chromosome matches. Using this tool one can view their X-chromosome matches by going to their Personal Page, click on “Advanced Matches”, “X-Matches”, … Continue reading →

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FTDNA Adds Population Finder

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Mic Barnette

Great News!   Family Tree DNA recently announced they anticipate releasing a new Population Finder  tool to everyone’s Family Finder results. The Population Finder will show the Population Finder results to each match matching you so you can compare your … Continue reading →

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Message to Project Members

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Mic Barnette

  Hi Everyone:   You should have received a message from FTDNA about their March sale for Mt-DNA testing. This sale goes through Tuesday April 1st 2014 at 11:59 pm CDT.   Testing has advanced over the years I have … Continue reading →

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FTDNA Project Statistics

Posted on March 30, 2014 by Mic Barnette

  Each year FTDNA sponsors an informative workshop for those of us who administer various surname and geographical projects. One of the things we have asked FTDNA for and recently got was a page on the administrator console listing statistics … Continue reading →

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