FamilyTreeDNAReviews of familytreedna.com

Uploaded from MyHeritage. I know my English is huge, most of my mothers side go back hundreds of years, but according to FTdna its only 22 percent! On myHeritage it was 74% ! Which is spot on. I also know about my Jewish line from Lithuania etc. No mention of that either. Not very good.

Familytreedna has the complete package of analysis that is relevant for a serious genetic genealogist. Although the website could be better user-friendly, but its the results that matter. Theyr variety of Y-DNA analysis is one of the very best, if you would like just to know your haplogroup or invest in a advanced Big-Y. The advanced will not only confirm how closely two paternal lineages is connected, but also identify new branches and find your unique leaf on the tree. You can connect yourself back to ancient times or recent.. Theyr mtDNA analysis can analyze the whole mt-DNA and give you more than just a haplogroup, but also identify new branches and who shares your maternal lineage. Last but not least theyr Familyfinder test, which is comparable with the autosomal test at Ancestry, Myheritage and 23andMe etc. Theyr test includes a chromosome browser which is very usefull and you can also combine it with the Y-DNA and mtDNA results giving you a much fuller picture way back in time and much more trustworthy. I use Familytreedna because it is a trusthworthy scientific company, that takes the customers privacy serious, dont test for genetic diseases or health, have the complete package of analysis that a genealogist would ever need. They have some great projects, run by genealogists from all over the world, dedicated to help and expand the knowledge of each branch. And lastly they store your DNA-sample for the future, you never know if you can get another sample and there could be better analysis in the future.

Very difficult and confusing website. No response from matched individuals after sending multiple emails. Cannot seem to find a contact vehicle for complaints.

Expensive, unresponsive and their website is possibly the worst website I have seen in a long time... slow, dull, not working and useless. Pathetic that they charge ungodly amount of money for horse poopie service site.

I believe Family Tree DNA is an excellent, top of the line genetic sequencing company!!! I love the fact that they use the Human Omni Express 24- chip and NovaSeg Sequencing system for genotyping DNA and ethnic origins, which is very powerful technology. They do a brilliant job drilling thousands of years into the history of genetic-ethnic components and I appreciate very much that they offer you the Ancient Origins feature, which is a prime aspect of this company allowing you to look into your prehistoric origins all the way back to the Neolithic and even further, I absolutely love this!!! I don't have a problem with my DNA results, they make sense in the timeline that Family Tree looks at my ethnic history which is older than other companies, the reason why I give Family Tree DNA four stars is because I think they should be more specific as far as their list of ethnicities not just showing West Africa, Southeast Europe or Middle Eastern but then again that is maybe because they look at really ancient DNA. Also, I had a lot problems downloading my Raw data and it was quite a process even with a compressing file program so I think they should have an easier system. The other issue is, I understand that DNA genotyping is a costly process but they charge for every test that looks into mitochondrial and paternal lineage histories for every SNP which makes it even more expensive than other companies if you want to do it and it is a lot of money. Nonetheless, I have thoroughly enjoyed my experience with Family Tree DNA and I recommend it to anyone specially if you want to do your Family Finder Origins(other features included) for $79.00 it is perfect!!!

Uploaded my raw dna from Myheritage. My father was 3/4 Scandinavian, 1/4 Irish. This is backed up by family knowledge and paper trail. From my grandmother back, all came from Sweden (paper trail backs this up). My great grandmother on his father’s side from Norway. (Paper trail also) My great grandfather was from Ireland. My results from Family Tree DNA showed zero Scandinavian! Zero Irish. My son uploaded his also. Though they confirm mother, son relationship, we matched only about 17% ethnicity. ??? Can not recommend FTDNA.

Would deserve 4 or five stars with faster customer services. We got some issues with the logins as the email address for 2 out of 3 kits were not registered properly and it took a long time for customer services to fix it (2-3 weeks). However, we got results for the 3 kits and this was quite insightful. It is quite important to take time to read all the explanation on the website regarding your ethnic origins. (We were mislead by the fact that one of us had almost 50% of his autosomal DNA similar to population of British islands but had no known ancestry from UK. After research it turns out that our region (east of France) was populated by migrants from Saxony via multiple migration waves which explains the similarities in DNA with the Anglo-saxons who populated the United Kingdom many centuries ago...)

We were promised access to MyHeritage by FamilytreeDNA if we uploaded our DNA tests to MyHeritage. That was taken away shortly there after. Do not believe their selling practice! I have most of my family back to the 1400's so I knew what the test should look like and I have to say it came back correct with a few things I didn't know and with some more checking they were correct.....but....they make false promises to sell their product! just a FYI they can take any promise away when ever they change their minds.