DNA testing recommendation

[Tschaikisten]

For now I recommend 23andMe. Gives you accurate autosomal ancestry results, good health reports (depends if your country allows you to receive their health reports or not, but even if it doesn't, you can download your raw data from the 23andMe site and upload it to Promethease to get similar results), and also gives you your Y-DNA and mtDNA. It's a bit more expensive than other tests, but it's worth it IMO. You can also upload your results to Gedmatch.

If you want to wait a bit, MyHeritage appears to be a good option. A lot cheaper than 23andMe (right now it's 89€ including shipment), it also seems to give good autosomal results, but I still haven't seen too many results from it cause it's a new company, so it's a bit more risky. You can wait a bit if you want to see if their results are accurate, and then make your decision.

23andMe is suck. Balkan people mostly care for Ydna, and after all you can not see markers and try to match people on ysearch.

23andme is the best

For people which only care for autosomal it is, but about Ydna/Mtdna --------> FTDNA rulez.

[Philip Latinowitz]

I got advice from some users here to try FTDNA first. But suposedly their autosomal test sucks, so I'll stick to haplogroups. How long does it take to recieve results ?

[Tschaikisten]

I got advice from some users here to try FTDNA first. But suposedly their autosomal test sucks, so I'll stick to haplogroups. How long does it take to recieve results ?

2-3 weeks to they send equipment for a test, then 2-3 months to wait for results. Same with all companies. Once time when you send sample to them you don't need to send it again.

[Philip Latinowitz]

2-3 weeks to they send equipment for a test, then 2-3 months to wait for results. Same with all companies. Once time when you send sample to them you don't need to send it again.

Thanks. Damn, that's a long time.

[Rethel]

Balkan people mostly care for Ydna

Normal people. Not only Balkan.

[Philip Latinowitz]

Normal people. Not only Balkan.

I'd really like to do mtDNA test too. Because majority of Croats are I2a+R1a haplogroups, so I wouldn't expect anything out of the ordinary

[Rethel]

How long does it take to recieve results ?

It is really individual.
For some one guy whom I tested results were in a week, for me - half a year,
becasue I send two tests at once (mine and my relative) and idiots thought
that it is one and the same person, even if there was two different numbers
and names and cognomens in profiles. Usually it was about month max
two. It probably depends on, how many work they have at the time.

[Rethel]

I'd really like to do mtDNA test too. Because majority of Croats are I2a+R1a haplogroups, so I wouldn't expect anything out of the ordinary

Usually such people are getting something special, for example O or A

Belive me, probablity often doesn't work here. You have what you have.

[Philip Latinowitz]

Usually such people are getting something special, for example O or A

Belive me, probablity often doesn't works here. You have what you have.

Isn't those non-European haplogroups ? I'm fully Croat as far back I know, so .....

[Rethel]

Isn't those non-European haplogroups ? I'm fully Croat as far back I know, so .....

O - Far East,
A - Bushmen and Nilots.

Ten years ago, I watched a documentary, where guy claimed,
that he is certainly a Viking, becasue he is from Northumberland,
and since always he was such. He got A as Angolian bushmens
(Only in Poland Angol can be confused with Englishman,
but it was not polish programme, unfortunatly for him )

Croats have also G, E, T, J1, J2, N, Q and probably also
rarely others, so, suspect every letter in alphabet, really.

About mt, look into my last threat in the MT division.