Thinking of trying DNA testing, it's on sale

[RodF]

Hi there. I'm a long-time DNA tester. My experience with Ancestry has been good for finding cousins, but for the breakdown of ancestral origins, I found the totals a bit odd. 23andme is better I think for the ancestral percentages (at least they seem to match what I know of the fairly elaborate paper trail family tree I have). I have recently sent in a test to LivingDNA, which I have hopes for because they break Britain down into multiple regions,and I'm very curious to see where this leads me. FamilyTreeDNA is way off in their autosomal testing, but for the Y-chromosome I think they still have the most exacting test. Anyway, hope this helps.

We have a my daughter, my grams, and my results with Ancestry and then my son wanted to do a test and we did that with 23andMe. Agree that there was a bit more defined results with his test. Part of the challenge is the pool of tests used for any of these tests. If there are not enough folks with tests from a region, there may not be enough matches.

It's an interesting tool and I think Old Building Prof here has a lot of great summaries. Like any tool, there are limits and challenges, but it is an interesting tool for genealogists to have at their disposal.