Please forgive me if this was posted yesterday to this list. I tried to
send it to all the Wells Lists last night in a list out of my email
account and I only saw one copy of it show up in my email account. I
think Roots Web may have decided it was maybe spam.
When we started out with the Wells DNA Project 14 years ago we had a
phase III that was to include the female descendants of Wells families
as well as males who did not carry the Wells surname. I was pretty sure
from discussions with the scientists involved that they would eventually
get here even thought they still have work to do.
I want to encourage all of you who have been standing by hoping this
would come to pass to now step up and get your DNA tested. Whether you
choose to do it at Ancestry or FamilyTreeDNA may not be important. Both
are offering a similarly priced product and analysis tools to help those
who are tested to find possible matches with cousins.
Those of you who have found your Wells cousins should consider this to
help you find cousins with information on other branches of your family.
Those of you who discovered you did not match a Wells family should
take this test to see if you can find the cousins who might be able to
help you find out why you didn't match a Wells. All you men who took
the y-chromosome tests should consider this test because, again, of the
potential to help you find information on the rest of your ancestors.
At Ancestry they have a special price sale running until Wednesday
Midnight Eastern Daylight Time. The cost until then is $79 = $20 off
the regular $99 price. So those of you on the West Coast that is only
until 9 PM The special price will go back to $99 after the deadline.
The time is short because I wrestled with this due to what Ancestry has
done with the y-chromosome testing for the second time. I honestly
can't guarantee they will not do it in time with this product as well.
IO When we started out with the Wells DNA Project 14 years ago we had a
phase III that was to include the female descendants of Wells families
as well as males who did not carry the Wells surname.
I want to encourage all of you who have been standing by hoping this
would come to pass to now step up and get your DNA tested. Whether you
choose to do it at Ancestry or FamilyTreeDNA may not be important. Bot
are offering a similarly priced product and analysis tools to help those
who are tested to find possible matches with cousins.
Those of you who have found your Wells cousins should consider this to
help you find cousins with information on other branches of your family.
Those of you who discovered you did not match a Wells family should
take this test to see if you can find the cousins who might be able to
help you find out why you didn't match a Wells. All you men who took
the y-chromosome tests should consider this test because, again, of the
potential to help you find information on the rest of your ancestors.
At Ancestry they have a special price sale running until Wednesday
Midnight Eastern Daylight Time. The cost until then is $79 = $20 off
the regular $99 price. So those of you on the West Coast that is only
until 9 PM The special price will go back to $99 after the deadline. I
will be submitting my test kit this week.
Go here to order it:
http://dna.ancestry.com/
Click on thj "Get AncestryDNA" button in the middle of the screen.
To order the FamilyFinder product at FamilyTree DNA ($99) - go here:
https://www.familytreedna.com/landing/atdna-landing.aspx
If you already have a family tree DNA account, log in to the account
before you order this test.
As with any DNA test there is no guarantee of success. What you are
looking for are matches to cousins you never knew about with the hope
that they will have family knowledge and/or genealogies that will help
you fill in your family tree. We will have additional discussions on
what to do once you have your results and discover the testing company
says you match 500 other people. How do you boil it down to those who
are REALLY likely to be cousins? If you find few leads at first, what
we can hope for is hundreds of thousands of others will take the tests
and more matches will show up including that key cousin you have been
waiting for.
I can't tell you for sure whether it would be better at Ancestry or
Family Tree DNA. They both have benefits. One to Ancestry is they have
a lot of genealogical family trees and information that may be of help
IF you have an Ancestry subscription.
I don't know which has the more data sets to compare against. They
don't reveal this sort of information.
I would also lean toward AncestryDNA because you can transfer your test
results over to FamilyTreeDNA (an additional charge of $69). You then
you would have your data on both systems to be matched. Ancestry, as
far as I know, has no provision to transfer a FamilyFinder test to
AncestryDNA.
Family Tree DNA is in the process of making it possible to upload gedcom
files so that they will have family trees that can be linked to these
tests and give researchers a better insight into whether there is a
likely genealogical match. But it is going to take a while before they
have enough genealogies on line to make it very helpful.
--
Orin Wells
253-630-5296