Just bought my ydna-mtdna family tree kit

[skauwt]

well Ive just ordered my DNA test kit , its my early birthday prezzie from the misses
i was wondering if anyone has bought one of these kits for the family tree research and if so what sort of information did you receive when you got your results in.... was the information useful or was it far from what you expected
the ydna37 test kit and mtdna kit for £76 ($125) i`d bought through the Chisholm Project Website ,
the company the family tree DNA is based in texas from what i can make out on the site......and i paid half price on mine I'm unsure whether this offer is available to other clans though either way I'm looking forward to getting it and getting my results in

[Dan R Porter]

I don't want to comment on your particular test, but I have heard some real horror stories of getting ripped off by these "DNA TEST" companies. Careful out there!

[HeathBar]

What the tests will tell you is if you you have marker matches with anyone else. The fewer the markers, the larger the generational gap. I did the 12 marker test. I was a test marker match for another person in the clan. He was born in Scotland. The test told us that we shared a common ancestor in the last 22 generations or 400+ years. The more markers, the more they can narrow a gap. At least you are starting off with a larger test.
And maybe you'll find an American cousin.

[Mael Coluim]

I participated in my clans DNA tests with Family Tree DNA. Found the results rather insightful. Here's an earlier thread on DNA Kits.

[gilmore]

well Ive just ordered my DNA test kit , its my early birthday prezzie from the misses
i was wondering if anyone has bought one of these kits for the family tree research and if so what sort of information did you receive when you got your results in.... was the information useful or was it far from what you expected
the ydna37 test kit and mtdna kit for £76 ($125) i`d bought through the Chisholm Project Website ,
the company the family tree DNA is based in texas from what i can make out on the site......and i paid half price on mine I'm unsure whether this offer is available to other clans though either way I'm looking forward to getting it and getting my results in

That's a good price.

Whatever company you test with, you can also enter the results at www.ysearch.org for possible matches with men who test at other comapnies.

I took the Y DNA test 2 years ago and received some suprising, useful and very helpful results, but not everyone will. It's a crapshoot. You may find several exact matches with men who have researched their patrilineal lines back to Charlemagne, you may find close matches that may give you general information on the area of the world your patrilineal line came from, or you may find nothing helpful. What is most useful, generally, is what it does not tell you. That is, it will likely show where in time and geographically you have no matches, and therefore where it would not likely be fruitful to do further research, so you can rule out possibilities without having to reasearch them yourself.

Another helpful thing is that genetic genealogy is in its infancy, having been widely available only since 2002 or so. Over time as others test, you are likely to come across more matches in the months and years to come.

I finally ordered a mitochondrial DNA test just tonight from Family Tree DNA, who tested my Y DNA. Both men and women inherit mtDNA from our mothers, so it shows matrilineal ancestry. The results are usually more vague than Y DNA testing, since fewer people test mtDNA, and most genealogical researchers are following surames backward in time. However, mtDNA shows at least where one's pre-historic ancestors lived, and maybe more. My most distant matrilineal ancestress was an Elizabeth Jones, born in Virginia around 1770, so her matrilineal ancestry could show up as Welsh. Certainly British. But who knows?

[skauwt]

thanks for the those links ,
Ive done as much as i think i can with my document side of the family tree most go back to the 1600s and one or two before that like the Bruce surname for example furthest i could trace was a Sir Thomas Bruce in the 1300s sometime
i know my maternal grandmother had family from southern Ireland so that should be interesting with the mtdna also with doing it with the clan Chisholm section it'll hopefully give other Chisholm's and perhaps other folk who lost touch with there family surname for various reasons some more data regarding there DNA tree i`ll be there 100th or 101st person do take the test and as you say with dna testing still in its early stages it`ll give future folk a better chance at finding a few things out with there ancestors

I'm hoping this test will say whether my ancestors had more connection with the highlands or the borders it makes no odds to me what part of Scotland they came from but it`ll be nice to pinpoint it better for future research

[Riverkilt]

My first cousin did some sort of DNA test deal and it came back Scandanavian rather than Scottish. But that makes sense since we're Clan Donald founded by Somerled and the family comes from Viking territory on the north end of the Trotternish Peninsula of Skye.

So, it may just confirm what you already know - which is nice.

Ron