Summer Sale until July 26th 2013

Thinking about starting to explore your brick walls by using genetic genealogy aka DNA testing?
It's summer sale time at Family Tree DNA.
Be in.
Join those of us who have entered a fascinating new aspect of genealogy.

Dear Valued Customer,   Summer is once again upon us and it is time for our Sizzling Summer event! Our successful summers over the last two years have led us to offer you great values again this year. We have been working with Illumina to offer our Family Finder autosomal test for only $99 during our summer event. In fact, if we receive enough orders at $99, Illumina may be able to help us keep it at this extremely low of rate of $99! As you take advantage of our summer event, remember that the permanency of the $99 Family Finder test is actually in your hands!

Beginning on Thursday, June 27, 2013 and running until Friday, July 26, 2013, we will offer the following: Family Finder was $289 Now $99 mtDNA Full Sequence was $289 Now $189 Y-DNA37 was $169 Now $129 Y-DNA67 was $268 Now $208 Y-DNA111 was $359 Now $308 Family Finder + Y-DNA37 was $368 Now $228 Family Finder + Y-DNA67 was $467 Now $307 Family Finder + mtDNAFullSequence was $398 Now $288 Comprehensive Genome (Y-DNA67, FMS & FF) was $666 Now $496   REMEMBER: ALL ORDERS MUST BE PLACED AND PAID FOR BY 11:59pm CST, JULY 26, 2013, TO RECEIVE THESE SPECIAL PRICES.

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Transfer your results into Family Tree DNA

There are substantial benefits in pooling DNA results.
One of the main ones being the ability to compare like with like for all interested in whichever project.
For those tested at eg, Ancestry.com, Family Tree DNA offers a transfer program with a number of options.
The most basic simply transfers your results into the FT DNA system where you can take advantage of their tools, matches, and all the volunteer administrators who help interpret results and recommend "where to next".
Even better, take advantage of the re-test option which involves a new sample, securely stored, and with the gaps between the prior company test and those offered by Family Tree DNA, all filled in.

Check out the above link for further information, and please do consider this option.

More tidy up

The DNA Surnames site tidy up continues.
This time the Haplogroup side of the site had some overdue attention.

The menu structure has changed slightly in that there are now submenus for the project and haplogroup menus.

The main content change was to expand the haplogroup trees to (sometimes) include the known Patriarch (Y-DNA) or Matriarch (mtDNA) as well as the testee, and to give some haplogroups a separate tree of their own (I and R).

Also a probably vain attempt at getting some of the haplogroup names up to current terminology, using the ISOGG trees as the 'master', and referring to them using their terminal SNP name (eg L21) rather than their branch name (eg R1b1a2a1a1b4).

A few more notes have been included against one or two of the haplogroups, particularly where the names have changed over the years, eg  L21 which 23andme still call R1b1b2a1a2f.
It is unlikely that this tree will ever be completely up to date which such changes, but the branching should give an indication of who shares which branch.
Those listed are only those who belong to projects  shown in the Lineages section of the site.

Please report any broken links using the contact details in the footer of most pages, some are bound to have escaped notice.

Site Update

DNA Surnames has been slightly restructured.
The list of projects have been shifted from the sidebar into submenus.
Some background renumbering may mean bookmarks need re-saving.

On the mitochondrial haplogroup tree of womankind a few of the earliest known ancestors for dna participants have been included as well as the previously included participants.

As noted previously, not all of the haplogroup names have necessarily been checked to see if they are their current names.

Y-DNA Upgrade Sale

FamilyTree DNA have announced a short upgrade sale for Father's Day:
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From June 12, 2013 through June 19, 2013, we will reduce the following prices.   Y-DNA 12 to 25 was $49 Now $35 Y-DNA 12 to 37 was $99 Now $69 Y-DNA 12 to 67 was $189 Now $148 Y-DNA 25 to 37 was $49 Now $35 Y-DNA 25 to 67 was $148 Now $114 Y-DNA 25 to 111 was $249 Now $224 Y-DNA 37 to 67 was $99 Now $79 Y-DNA 37 to 111 was $220 Now $188 Y-DNA 67 to 111 was $129 Now $109

To order an upgrade at these special prices you may log into your personal page with your kit number and password. Click on the "Order Upgrade" button located on the right side of the menu bar. Then click on the "Special Offers" button. ALL ORDERS MUST BE PLACED AND PAID FOR BY 11:59pm, JUNE 19, 2013, TO RECEIVE THE SALE PRICE.

So, if you aren't up to at least Y-DNA37 or 67, here's your chance to refine the closeness of your matches.