*Where should you get your DNA tested?*
As most of you know Ancestry has discontinued the y-Chromosome and mtDNA
testing. So the only viable option for us is now to test at Family Tree
DNA. Any of you who have been sitting on the sidelines trying to decide
whether to be tested or not, if you decide you will want to select the
37 marker test at
Ftdna.com. More markers? You can, but IMHO we know
enough from the 37 markers to be able to match you to your ancestral
Wells family. The cost is $149 through the Wells project, so ask me for
eht link before you do that. Remember though that you MUST test a male
in your family who still carries the Wells y-chromosome. Females and
any non-Wells males who had a Wells female ancestor will not work. If
confused on this, email me.
*The Wells DNA Project*
I have been invited to become a co-manager of the Wells DNA Project at
Family Tree DNA joining Cynthia Wells and Lincoln Mulkey. Through this
merger we will potentially expand the Wells project to about 700 tests.
This puts them all in one place where they can be searched for matches
making the possibility of finding (more) cousins greater and leading to
more genealogy which is what all of us are after in the final analysis.
*The Wells Project Transfer*
Anyone who was involved in the Wells DNA project should have received an
email from me regarding the details on the transfer. If you did not and
you have been tested whether in our project or independently through
Ancestry.com let me know and I will send you the details.
If you ARE in the project and did not receive the message then you may
have changed email addresses and I do not know the current address.
Please email me on this.
There wer 161 people for whom the email address I have did not work. So
I will have to reach out to them by telephone or other means to let them
know what to do. This is going to take time.
*Get your results from
DNA.Ancestry.com before they are lost.
*If you or a relative were tested under any of the projects or were just
independently tested at Relative Genetics or Ancestry and have your
results at Ancestry you need to log in to you account and down load the
PDF file with your results before Ancestry removes these from their site
on Sept. 5th. If you don't know how to do this, email and and I will
send you the instructions for that.
The bad news here is that their DNA data pages have been broken since at
least Friday with only a rare opening. So you may have to keep trying
to log in each day until they fix whatever they have broken. I have
emailed my contact with this information and have so far received no
response. If I have no response in another day I will elevate this up
the Ancestry food chain.
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Orin Wells
253-630-5296