I am the administrator of several DNA Projects at Family Tree DNA. Today I was looking at some of the statistics of each of the projects and noticed quite a few members in each project have taken various portions of Mt-DNA but only about half of those testers have taken …
I have tested with FTDNA, Anestry and 23 and Me. Several years ago 23 and me decided they would outsource their trees with MyHeritage. So, I uploaded a tree there via GEDCOM. My tree apparently was more than the “Free Tree” allowed and I never could figure out how to …
Roberta Estes is a prolific blogger. If you do not subscribe to her blogs, you should. One of her recent blogs gives an down to earth explaination of the Big Y test and why men should take it or women have their men take it. Holiday Coupons and Why …
As genetic genealogists and family historians we constantly deal with dead people- our ancestors. What we usually don’t do, however, is consider our own mortality. That is one thing for certain that we will never get out of this world alive. But, what happens when we do die? One of …
Hi Project Members: In this post I have information about FTDNA’s annual Christmas Seasonal Sale and discount coupons. I will also talk about different types of tests, so, be sure to read this and subsequent posts as I will be disseminating new information about tests and things about your …
Hi Everyone: The following codes have also been posted on my blog at http://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com Please read the dna related blogs I have posted there. Due to FTDNA’s vendor messing up the coupons it appears they sent out new coupons to replace the ones previously posted I have, therefore, gone back …
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays Everyone! Below I have listed some coupon Discount Codes for this weeks FTDNA Holiday Sale. Please check your own Personal Page to view your own coupon. If it does not do what you want, come to this page and find one that will help. Also, if you …
Today is Monday and the New Coupons have arrived. I just happen to have today off, so I was able to get them posted today rather than waiting until I could get to them later in the week. I have grouped them together by category. Here is a summary …
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!! Family Tree DNA is in the second week of their annual Holiday sale, the best time of the year to dive in or expand your DNA repertoire. They currently have some great sale prices and offer, in addition to the sale prices, coupons for even more off. …
Note: This is the First Part of a Two Part Post. Following is a link to Part 2: http://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com/brick-wall-broken-by-shared-dna-part-2/ (Note: Hopefully, you have read my 4 Part blog called Shared Chromosomes. If not, I suggest doing so after reading this success story. It will guide you through the methodology …