DNA Day sale(s)

FamilyTreeDNA have announced their DNA Day sales.
Excellent discounts on offer in particular for:
FamilyFinder, BigY, SNP packs and yDNA.

Please remember to join your relevant surname project.

National DNA Day is April 25. Celebrate with us!

Dear Group Administrators, Beginning April 20th, our National DNA Day sale begins! The promotion ends at 11:59 pm Central Time on Thursday, April 27. Please remember that Items ordered though the invoice system (Bill Me Later) must be paid by that time.

SHOP OUR BESTSELLERS

You’ll note that Y-DNA and mtDNA upgrades are not included. You will receive the reduced price if you add a product to an existing kit, but going from Y-37 to 67 or mtPlus to mtFull Sequence (FMS) will not be discounted this time.   ======= Other companies are also offering assorted discounts, a summary can be found on CeCe Moore's blog http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2017/04/dna-day-sales-2017.html

Discount time

THE 2016 HOLIDAY SALE IS HERE!

In the spirit of the holidays, Family Tree DNA has slashed prices on our most popular products. Plus, we’re sending you free Holiday Rewards every week of the sale so you can apply your Rewards to the already reduced prices for a bonus discount!

Best of all, make the season even more special by sharing your Holiday Rewards with friends and family. You’ll receive bonus coupons every time you share, so ‘tis the season to share the joy and get rewards.

With holiday savings this huge, your DNA has met its match. But hurry, this coupon is valid for 7 days only! 


From our family to yours… Happy Holidays.

Sincerely,
The Family Tree DNA Team

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The discounted prices are visible at the normal product page

https://www.familytreedna.com/products.aspx

and spare coupons available are being added to a communal spreadsheet at 

http://tiny.cc/ftdna

In addition BigY is $50 off, with coupons providing further discounts.

Which is a great opportunity to place your direct male line of interest onto the tree of mankind AND contribute to the ongoing science of yDNA discovery.

If your pedigree has any of the surnames listed in the top right "related sites", do please join the relevant project to assist our overall understanding of connections between documented lines.

FTDNA Summer Sale

FTDNA's Sizzling Summer Sale starts now! View this email in your browser

Summer is the perfect time for sun, fun and family…so jump into the gene pool now with sizzling hot savings from Family Tree DNA!   JUST $69USD Lowest Price Ever! NEW AMAZING FEATURE Sort Your Paternal and Maternal Matches! All of our DNA tests are designed to deliver superior results with the most advanced technology to tackle any genetic genealogy challenge. Plus, our new parental phasing tool allows users to further refine DNA matches like never before. The more matches the better, so be sure to tell family and friends and take advantage of this incredible offer. For even more bundle specials, check out our Sizzling Summer Sale! With savings this hot, what better way to discover, match and connect more dots on your family tree! All that, and no subscription fees! For more information, visit FamilyTreeDNA.com. Sincerely, The Family Tree DNA Team Shop Sale Now

Upgrade sale/discounted bundles

Great time to explore your paternal lines.
Find a direct male line descendant for your surname of interest and grab these sale prices.

Also good to get an upgrade to at least Y-67 to see how your DNA37 matches hold up at the next level.

Dear Group Administrators: The Father’s Day Sale is almost here! As promised, we are offering discounts on upgrade pricing during our Father's Day Sale. Starting at midnight tonight and ending on Monday, June 20th at 11:59pm CDT, sale pricing for the discounted upgrades will be as follows: Y12-Y25 $49 $40 Y12-Y37 $99 $79 Y25-Y37 $49 $40 Y37-Y67 $99 $79 Y37-Y111 $220 $188 Y67-Y111 $129 $109 HVR1-FMS $159 $139 HVR2 (mtDNA Plus)-FMS $139 $129 In addition to the discounted upgrade pricing above, we also have discounts on these select testing bundles:   Y37 + Family Finder $268 $218 Y67 + Family Finder $367 $288 Comprehensive Genome (FF+Y67+FMS) $566 $449 Please note that while invoiced orders (Bill me later option) can be placed during the sale, we will only be able to honor the sale price for those orders if they order are paid by the end of the sale. As always, thank you for your work with your projects and your support. We appreciate you!

Sincerely,

The Family Tree DNA Team

Still shopping?

Looking for a last minute Christmas present?
The FamilyTreeDNA sale is still on  - until the end of December.
Check out the Wanted! pages on DNASurnames for your surname if you are a male and see if you can contribute your Y-DNA to advance the project's knowledge of how lineages inter-relate (or not).
Please consider at least Y-DNA37, but preferably Y-DNA67, to be of most use.

Don't forget that everyone, male or female, can contribute to dna projects and advance their family tree by using FamilyFinder, the autosomal DNA you have all inherited from both parents, and they theirs in turn. It can be a bit of a lottery if trying to prove a specific distant ancestor, but great fun.

Keep an eye on this spreadsheet
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CgXRKz2TySvRqSInveSIYoslO7yexAc9d-BzpNhaY1c/edit?usp=sharing
 for  coupon codes for additional $ off over and above the discounted prices.
New coupons are being issued weekly on Mondays.

FTDNA Project Activity Feeds

If you have tested with FamilyTreeDNA, you will have received an email recently about their new MyGroups facility.

For those projects whose administrators have converted to the new feature, there are daily discount code offers being posted on the Activity Feed.
Check them out.
The codes are valid  until used (not just for the day posted) BUT can only be used once, so first in, first served.

I am still checking through the conversions of all my projects, but think I have converted them all, even without any tidy-up of the associated information, much of which is long overdue for a revision.

To access, click on the globe in the top right of your screen

and click on a notification for the project you wish to view, or the Activity Feed if none.

Why not contribute a post or question about your dna experiences while there?

For the projects I administer the settings are that the posts are private to the group, so you must be logged in to view and to post.
If sufficient interest is shown in making them public instead, this can be changed. 

Holiday sale time for DNA kits

FamilyTreeDNA have provided Group Administrators with an announcement of a set of discounts valid until the end of December, along with mystery rewards.
Great time to explore family relationships using FamilyFinder, or chase those theories about whether or not those "three brothers who emigrated" were really brothers by using y_DNA.

Go to http://FamilyTreeDNA.com, check that the sale prices below are shown, select your test, order and join in the wonderful fun of adding science to your genealogy.

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Dear Group Administrators, We're excited to announce the launch of our 2014 Holiday sale!  The promotion will start on November 25 (it may not be live on the site yet if you're reading this before noon Central Time) and end on December 31st @ 11:59PM Central Time. You'll find a full list of the sale prices below. And because we're in such a festive mood, we're adding a special treat to this year's great deals - Mystery Reward discounts!  The Mystery Reward will be a randomized discount (up to $100 off) that can be applied on top of the already reduced Holiday Sale prices. Best of all, you’ll get a new Mystery Reward every week. You can use the discounts or share them with friends! The Mystery Reward icon will appear on testers’ myFTDNA dashboard each week. Each code will expire the night before the next Mystery Reward appears. We’ll also send an email notification to the kit’s primary email address when a new code is available for use or sharing.

The Mystery Rewards include both product-specific and total-purchase discounts ranging from $5 - $100 (including one for $49 off a Family Finder!) and are randomly assigned to each kit. That means not everyone gets the same reward at the same time. When you open the Mystery Reward, you’ll see a code to be used at checkout, whether it’s on your own kit or someone else’s.

In addition, all customers who have purchased the Big Y test will receive a $50 off coupon for a Big Y test, good through Dec. 31st. Note: Only one coupon can be used per purchase.

Finally, remember that the FTDNA offices are closed the Friday after Thanksgiving. If you call and leave a message, it’s critical that you speak clearly. Please be sure to leave your contact phone number and/or email address, and the group or kit number about which you’re calling.  As always, if an attempt is made during the sale period to contact us about a purchase, we will honor the sale price - and in this case, the coupon price, too.

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Whoops!  Looks like we forgot to include the actual sale prices in the previous email!  They are now included below.  Also, remember that the Mystery Rewards will randomly applied.  That means that some females might get discounts for Y-DNA tests or Big Y tests. That's intentional!  In the spirit of the holidays, we want to people to share and exchange their Mystery Rewards. P.S. The sale is almost live! It will start in a few hours.

Y-DNA discounted until 3 Sep 2014

This just in from FamilyTree DNA.
A good time to upgrade to Y-DNA67...

Dear Valued Customer, We hope you've had a great summer!  As the season draws to a close, join us for one last celebration with our End of Summer Y-DNA Sale! Order a Y-DNA Test and join the world's largest Y-DNA database. All Y-DNA tests and upgrades have been marked down for significant savings!  Time is limited. Order now because the sale ends on 9/3/2014.   As an added bonus, Big Y is also on sale for $495*. Big Y is the most comprehensive Y chromosome discovery test on the market. With Big Y, 340,000 years of Y-DNA ancestry is just a test away!

Standard Tests Regular Price Sale Price Y-37 $169 $129 Y-67 $268 $199 Y-111 $367 $279 Big Y $595 $495 Upgrades Regular Price Sale Price Y-12 -> Y-37 $99 $70 Y-12 -> Y-67 $189 $148 Y-12 -> Y-111 $339 $239 Y-25 -> Y-37 $49 $35 Y-25 -> Y-67 $148 $114 Y-25 -> Y-111 $249 $209 Y-37 -> Y-67 $99 $79 Y-37 -> Y-111 $220 $179 Y-67 -> Y-111 $129 $109

* Note: Only previously awarded Big Y coupons are usable with sale items.  Other offers and coupons are not valid with Y-DNA sale prices.

Father's Day Sale

From FamilyTree DNA:  --- We are excited to announce our Father's Day Sale!  Act now so you don't miss out on our lowest Family Finder price ever! These offers are valid from 6/9/2014 through 6/17/2014. Savings (no coupon code required) Family Finder: $79    (was $99) Big Y: $595 (was $695)

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Assorted projects associated with http://DNASurnames.info have a growing number of autosomal tests (FamilyFinder)  as people explore their ancestry outside of the direct paternal lines covered by Y-DNA.

For the Y-dna, FAIRBAIRN and RUNCIMAN in particular, we are gradually working our way down the Y-DNA haplogroup tree using nominated a nominated representative, but don't let that stop any of you curious about the refinement of your haplogroup, the more data the better!

DNA & Arbor Day sale

DNA Day is a holiday celebrated on April 25. It commemorates the day in 1953 when James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin and colleagues published papers in the journal Nature on the structure of DNA. Wikipedia

I wonder if they realised what they started in the way of genetic genealogy?

FamilyTree DNA are havine a short sale to celebrate both this and the launch of their updated Y_SNP tree.

A good time to be in if you've been thinking about testing, and/or refining your position on the haplogroup tree of mankind.  

Customers that have already taken a Y-DNA test can refine their new haplotree by taking 20% off all SNPs!  Customers that have not taken a Y-DNA test can buy the Y-DNA37 test for 20% off too! Order now because these amazing offers are valid only through April 29, 2014. Savings (no coupon code required) Y-DNA37 – 20% off All Y-DNA SNPs – 20% off The Runciman and Fairbairn projects will be taking advantage of the SNP testing discount to try and further refine the position of our main matching kits.