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@jrizzo I’ll PM you my phone number if you want to chat sometime. That’s great you found a brother! I found my father through a 2nd cousin once removed match. She didn’t even know who he was. Through her she referred me to the family geanologist who gave me a tree. Then her father tested. That showed we did not share similar paternal…[Read more]

@Matt – I have a donor brother on 23andme and we are sharing genomes. Do you have any suggestions or resources you can point me to as to how I can use this to further trace the donor family? I saw in another thread you were able to deduce that you have 300+ donor siblings…

That’s good you beat the ban! That was so lame. So they refunded you and you’re buying the FTDNA regular test now? I wouldn’t feel bad about asking your brothers. In fact, I would confirm the biological relationship with a DNA test always. I would ask them at a minimum to do the 23andMe autosomal test. As a bonus if they are confirmed your…[Read more]

@matt I ordered my kit from 23andme just two weeks before their health report was banned and I know for sure that the new test they do after the ban (called v4) isn’t compatible with the current system on FTDNA (I buyed the autosomal transfer and tried to upload my data from 23andme without luck. Customer service confirmed that it wasn’t possible…[Read more]

Great! Thank you for contacting Ancestry to get an answer.

I just heard back from Ancestry and they said the current plan is to run the special until August 27, 2014.

@ina-rosdal Great question. Because you’re female you don’t have a Y Chromosome so you can’t do that test. You could have a brother do it for you if you know of one. The Family Finder is the one you should do. It will tell you your closest relatives in the database. You should absolutely do all 3 dna sites since they are each a separate…[Read more]

Ps. How long does the offer run?

Thank you for the reply. That was what I thought but I just need to make sure. In case it surely is a onetime payment (I’m not interested in the extra features whatsoever) I’m pretty sure I’ll take the offer – and of course I’ll go through the DonorChildren link to support the site!