AncestryDNA

I mailed my sample in November of 2017 along with my wife's and got both results 4 weeks later in December.

No insights from my results... very under-whelming. The results showed I was from Europe, either Great Britain or West Europe. [sarcasm]Wow huge surprise.[/sarcasm] I am a caucasian male from the United States so that is basically a given. I really wanted to see specifics in terms of ethnicity and not just a land mass.

With my wife's results as she is Asian and her parents where born in Japan. Her results showed she is from Polynesia and East Asia. This can mean China, Russia, Korea, Taiwan, and a a number of other countries. So nothing really learned her that I could not have told them by just looking at her.

The only really good thing I found is that Ancestry DNA  allows the download of your raw DNA file. This means you can upload it to other services that support it. Hopefully i can find one that makes me feel it was worth spending money on these tests. Reading on this site I see that MyHeritate DNA allows you to upload your Raw DNA data for free it looks like. Maybe I will try them out.

I bought an Ancestry DNA kit a few months ago and the results I got  provided closure for some questions I had. Not what I wanted to be but happy I found out. The whole collection process was easy enough and it comes with a box to mail back your samples. The results took 5 weeks.

I also gave this as a gift for Christmas to my mother-in-law. It was a perfect gift for her and she was very excited to receive it.

The Ancestry DNA test is very easy to use and it comes with a prepaid envelop. I do wish that you got your results faster. Mine took almost 2 months before I was able to see the results.

The results are interesting though. I have plenty of European heritage that I know and guessed I had but was surprised to see a percentage of Asian DNA. I was not expecting that and will make an interesting branch on my Family Tree when I start one. I am really curious how that happen and I hope when I start researching I will be able to find out. I just retired so this will be a perfect thing for me to work on, on rainy days.

In my opinion the DNA testing kit is a must have for Ancestry.com subscribers. For the past 6 months I had grown my family tree to just 32 members. I couldn't find anymore and I thought I was stuck. 

For Christmas last year someone in my family gave me the Ancestry DNA testing kit. I sent in my results any in 2 long months (way to long to wait) I got my results. While the ethnicity estimate is interesting what I found I really liked with the DNA Circles tool. I never knew about this tool before but it allows you to find other people that match in part your DNA there by potentially filling in your family tree more. I found 2 really close matches and have been expanding my family tree every since.

Really glad I did the DNA test and those of you who have a family tree on Ancestry.com will be too.

My results for the most part from Ancestrydna did not surprise me. I was 60% English which is not shocking as most of my aunts, uncles and grandparents still live in England. What surprised me is that I have nothing from France. We live in New Orleans and my mother and her mother were born in France as well so I was expecting some French unless my Grandmothers parents had both immigrated from somewhere else. My mother when she was alive never mentioned that and unfortunately I never asked.

So either the DNA test got it wrong or I am not part French. Weird!