DNA Services
We are interested in your experiences and opinions concerning the major DNA testing services. Typically we think of Ancestry.com and 23andMe but there are others. Readers will be interested in features you liked and disliked, expectations met, and disappointments encountered. Comments can be specific to a particular service or more generally address the exercise of DNA testing and discovery. Please share your experience by replying below.
To start this discussion I will say that, for my part, I did find that the 23andMe ancestry analysis was reasonably interesting. While not my reason for starting the process, what I probably found most interesting with the greatest opportunity to interconnect with others was the “DNA Relatives” section. This allows one to see certain optional information provided by genetically similar “relatives”. Such information is searchable and so allows one to search by surname, ancestor origin or other keywords. What becomes obvious very quickly is that too few people list surnames. It is very simple to provide each surname along… Read more »