Archive for the ‘FamilyTreeDNA’ Category

Jun

2

2011

Onnittelut / Congratulations!

Author: Laura

Finland DNA Project member CeCe Moore’s company StudioINTV has won a 2011 Telly award for their FamilyTreeDNA commercial.

The Tellies “honor the very best local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web.”

Onnittelut!

Provided they become available, I will update this post later with any clips of the commercial.

Updated Friday, 6.3.2011, just in time for Friday Video: here’s an earlier and shorter version of the final commercial, for those of you who hadn’t seen it before (as it turns out, I’d posted this version last year).

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Feb

10

2011

Family Finder – upgrade opportunity

Author: Laura

If you previously tested through FamilyTreeDNA’s Family Finder (or currently have it on order and are waiting for results), please take advantage of their free offer upgrade to the new Illumina Omni platform:

Family Tree DNA is pleased to announce a new and exciting development with our Family Finder test.

We are changing our Family Finder test to the Illumina Omni platform and are retesting all existing Family Finder results for FREE.

Please see the notifications that are going to all Family Finder customers. They explain the benefits and the retesting procedure.



The process for upgrading is simple.

  1. Go to the email address that is listed on your FamilyTreeDNA account and open the email about the upgrade offer.
  2. Click on the embedded link that will take you to FTDNA and sign in to your personal account.
  3. The message about the free upgrade should be right at the top of your account page; click on the bolded orange “Sign up for a FREE conversion!” link.
  4. Then in the next window select “Family Finder Conversion” from the drop-down menu.
  5. The last page will pop up as a receipt confirming your order.

I just did this for mine and my husband’s Family Finder results and it took all of three minutes. This kind of continual innovation combined with ease of ordering is why FamilyTreeDNA remains the gold standard for direct-to-consumer DNA testing.

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May

6

2010

Family Finder – update

Author: Laura

Yes, another week primarily spent immersing myself in the study of Family Finder, autosomal inheritance and testing; I’ve been jotting down notes, collecting resources and drafting the Finland DNA Project’s Family Finder page as I go.

Two more successes to add include paper-trail confirmed matches at the 7th and 8th cousin level on my own results with more pending confirmed matches in the works for both myself and my husband. In my four years’ involvement with genetic genealogy these are the first confirmed matches I’ve had for either of us and it’s exciting indeed. And I’m fascinated by some of the larger chromosomal shared blocks I’m seeing between fully Finnish members’ results and matches whose family history, as far as they know, is (to name a typical example) entirely in the British Isles. Genetic archaeology? To say the least, I am intrigued to see what happens as FamilyTreeDNA’s database grows.

Family Finder is now out of the beta phase and being offered to the general public.

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Apr

25

2010

FTDNA’s Family Finder on YouTube

Author: Laura

Update 4/26: this video was created for FTDNA by Finland DNA Project member Cece’s production company.

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