Discover your family origins, cheapest price this year.
Excludes shipping which is about $30.
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Ancestry DNA Test $99, Normally $149. Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale
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how does this compare to the national geographic one?
I researched it before and people were saying the National Geographic one was very general. I think it went back too far so you got traced to a whole continent, when you probably know this much. I think this one has more people too
hey is that price USD or AUD?
Au
Good price. Biggest database of all companies.
ftDNA has it cheaper, and with further DNA test options, but the database has less folks.
Try cashrewards as well, not sure if the cashback relates to their subscriptions, or DNA.
7% cashback for DNA test, 17.5% cashback for subscriptions
Has anyone done it before? Is it worthwhile?
You just need to be ready to hear that you were adopted, that you married a sibling or that you are 100% neanderthal. If you are not OK to hear these things, perhaps it is best not to do it.
Yes, there is the potential to make some very upsetting discoveries, so it's important to consider whether you are prepared for that. There are many cases of people doing the test and discovering that they were donor conceived or adopted, or that their father is not their biological father.
I would celebrate if I found out my father wasn’t my biological father!
Yeah its worthwhile. Matched with relatives who did the test as well. You also get the raw data for your DNA, which you can upload to other DNA websites like Family Tree DNA and Promethease (analyzes for medical).
I got it for my dad's birthday this year.
Being asian, it was pretty much useless, it concluded that my dad originated from the Asia region, huge surprise there!
There isn't enough asian samples in the pool to give it any further detail.
So a bit of a catch 22, no point doing it if your asian as not enough data, but then again if Asians don't participate, they will never have enough data.
Did you Dad get any cousin matches at all?
Yeah he did, but they were so distant that they were pretty much just strangers.
Just checked again, closest possible match was 4th Cousin which equates to possibly having the same great great great grandparents, or 10 degrees of separation.
Hopefully he will get some closer matches in the future. If you haven't already, you could upload the raw data file to other sites like GEDmatch.com, Family Tree DNA etc to check if he has some better matches in other databases.
Makes your Dad a bit of a pioneer then! We simply need more participants.
As someone who also has Asian ancestry, I'd love to see more people participate (especially India!).
hhmm would be interesting. been talking about doing one with my fam for a while to see what our real cultural heritage is.
I'll wait until they can better for non-European ancestry. Right now its Devon & Cornwall compared to South Asia.
That's only based on contributors. So, the one I'm looking at now can specify an area of Scotland or Ireland. It can then make assumptions in relation to Nova Scotia and Carolina etc based purely on the DNA provided by other users.
So really, the issue isn't DNA, it's data matching. More data, better matches.
My Heritage is cheaper but Ancestry has more testers, meaning more relative matches.
Yeah its cheaper at myheritage, but if you want the most analyses, i suggest buy from ancestrydna. Then free upload your data to myheritage and familytreedna. So its basically three sites for the price of one.
Dont these guys hang on to your DNA data for their own use?
Yes, they are creating clones for the government.
Careful guys, one person submitted their DNA twice, once under they own name and the other under a friends name, the results came back different…using identical DNA from the one person…dodgy much.
This is incredibly useful if you use Ancestry or plan to as a way of finding links in your family that you didn't know were there. Parents got theirs done and have had unknown Cousins message via Ancestry from branches we knew existed but had no info on. The latest find was the Cousin of our Grandfather; she's still alive at 95 and is currently retelling her knowledge of the family as we speak.
Depending on how much you know about your family, be prepared for either confirmations or rude shocks. Presents as an interactive pie chart and will narrow it down into regions (not continents). It won't tell you however, that you're family is from a small area of Yorkshire. That's a different test (University level, must more expensive).
Worthwhile? Yes, but you have to be realistic in what it will and won't give you.
Those interested in pursuing DNA a little further (males and females) might want to test (autosomal) with ftDNA currently US$49+shipping (I think it works out to about AU$85 or something). From here you can upgrade to yDNA / mtDNA.
Was just in the process of posting the deal when I found it had been.
I'm torn about these tests - while it may be interesting to find out your mix and see if you have some viking or African in you, I can't help thinking the darker reasons for it may outweigh the benefits - eugenics, ethnic cleansing, religious nutters cataloging the worlds population to what purpose? etc
Plenty of others are having Black Friday sales. There are different types of tests. Most common/basic seems to be autosomal, then you have various maternal or paternal options.
A couple of roundups to read before choosing:
http://www.genie1.com.au/blog/58-which-dna-testing-company
https://www.smarterhobby.com/genealogy/best-dna-test/
If you have UK roots LivingDNA is probably the best $149 ($199)
https://www.livingdna.com/en-auVery cheap at myheritage $65 ($130)
https://www.myheritage.comStarting at US$49 (US$89) going right up to US$427 (US$556) for a very comprehensive (male only) test
https://www.familytreedna.com/productsThere are folks who dont have an interest in ethnicity, but do it to further enhance recent generations of family history research. I fall into this category.
I have my DNA listed on 6 sites:
ftDNA (I've done autosomal/ydna 67)
LivingDNA (1 test covers all areas - autosomal/ydna/mtdna)
Gedmatch
Genesis
Geni
MyheritageSpreading my DNA around allows for more matches.
I have one more site to order from, Ancestry which has the biggest database. Sale on now so i'll look at it later today.
Ohh man!!