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From: "H. B. Whitmore" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Some truth in article was Re: Answer from AncestorsMagazine
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 13:09:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: <7kincaids%40primus.ca$142.154.19.49$.1A2FDD19EB854306829B924C6E34F72D@PeterAKincaiPC>


I agree with most of what you say, Peter, but I would sure hate to see FTDNA
drop their 12 marker test, and I asked Ancestry to keep theirs. While the 12
markers are, perhaps, not very useful for someone just getting started and
wanting to find a connection, I have found them very useful establishing "no
relationship" if I'm paying for the test.


on 5/17/08 9:07 AM, Peter A. Kincaid at wrote:

> Some people are getting quite defensive about
> this article but some truth remains. I started our
> surname project with the other early birds and
> see some truth in the claim that DNA testing
> can be a waste. It is a complete waste:
>
> 1) for some companies to knowingly offer a poor
> quality product (i.e.. in terms of lab error - FTDNA
> doing a good job making sure this is not an issue for
> them).
> 2) for companies to offer low resolution tests (FTDNA
> knows their 12 marker test is pretty useless but
> they still sell it).
>
> Furthermore, as much as some suggest otherwise,
> haplogroup testing, race percentage testing, and mtdna
> testing have very little genealogical benefit - the benefits
> of the latter greatly outweighed by the costs to get
> meaningful comparative results.
>
> Peter



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