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@jrizzo DNA is our strongest tool. Next is social networking. Lastly is the news media. We just got myself and two other members in two news papers and on TV in Kansas City. Getting publicity can be productive. Contact Idant and see if you can get any information from them. Lastly, have your mom test on 23andMe. That way you can filter out…[Read more]

@matt – Thanks for sharing your experience. I started watching the 23andme webcast they did recently (available at http://blog.23andme.com/ancestry/23andme-ancestry-basics/) to see if there is some tool I haven’t found yet. I’m only about halfway through, so I’ll update back here if there’s something I find useful in a search for donor sibs.

@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.