Hello,
For those interested, below is a summer sale prices from FTDNA. Unfortunately it is
focused on the Family Finder or atDNA test. There is no strict Y-DNA tests or Y-DNA
upgrades in this sale.
When you take the Y37 – the Family Finder ($218 – 69 = 149) you get our regular group
price of $149. I would wait until the Fall Sale where hopefully FTDNA will focus on the
Y-DNA.
The Carpenter Cousins Y-DNA Project has a join link that allows Group Pricing. See:
http://www.familytreedna.com/surname_join.asp?code=S82066
But, the Family Finder test is an excellent price. This is the lowest I have seen it.
For more on atDNA see the brief below.
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA USA
Carpenter Cousins Project
http://carpentercousins.com
Here’s the FTDNA Sale pricing:
Product
Retail Pricing
Sale Price
Group Price
Family Finder
$99
$69
$69
Y37 + Family Finder
$268
$228
$218
Y67 + Family Finder
$367
$327
$317
Comprehensive Genome (FF+Y67+FMS)
$566
$499
$489
FMS + Family Finder
$298
$258
$258
**Please note - these bundles must remain bundles. If you buy at the sale price for future
use, the entire bundle must be used on one tester. Canceling tests from the bundle will
cause tests to revert to regular price.**
Autosomal DNA Tests
Ancestry and 23andMe focus on autosomal DNA (atDNA) FTDNA has a similar test called
Family Finder. Most people use these tests to see their ethnic heritages. So much
European, so much Middle Eastern, et cetera.
23andMe also uses atDNA type testing for medical genetic warning type tests as for Cystic
Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Anemia, Hereditary Hearing Loss and et cetera.
Some use it to compare DNA fragments to others for cousin similarity up to about 5
generations.
On a genealogical pedigree chart atDNA represents all your ancestry. You share 50% of your
DNA from each parent, 25% from each grandparent, then 12.5% by the next generation
followed by 6.25%, 3.125%, 1.5625% and further divided numbers back into time.
If you are surnamed Carpenter, any cousin match most likely will not be a Carpenter, but
from one of your other ancestors. For example, at 5 generations the likely cousin match
will be a Carpenter is 1/16 (one sixteenth),
To see the differences between these atDNA testing companies, please go to the following
link.
http://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart