Best Dna test to take ??

**~~Arborean~~** · 09-09-2018, 11:08 PM

Is NatGeo worth a try? Pretty much tested wit all except them. They also seem to have that famous relatives thing which could be interesting. Anyone test with them?

**Dick** · 09-09-2018, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Arborean

Is NatGeo worth a try? Pretty much tested wit all except them. They also seem to have that famous relatives thing which could be interesting. Anyone test with them?

NatGeo is probably the most interesting test out of all of them. Unfortunately their website says that their Kits for Canada are sold out.

**Carpatz** · 09-09-2018, 11:24 PM

ancestry or ftdna since 23andme v5 has 3x less snps

**~~Arborean~~** · 09-10-2018, 01:20 AM

Originally Posted by Dick

NatGeo is probably the most interesting test out of all of them. Unfortunately their website says that their Kits for Canada are sold out.

That’s a shame. Can’t you just order it from USA and pay the shipping? It says that if you buy 2 kits or more its 69.99USD.

**Dick** · 09-10-2018, 01:22 AM

Originally Posted by Arborean

That’s a shame. Can’t you just order it from USA and pay the shipping? It says that if you buy 2 kits or more its 69.99USD.

Apparently not which is bizarre lol if kits are available to US citizens then why not outside of the US

**~~Arborean~~** · 09-10-2018, 01:29 AM

Originally Posted by Dick

NatGeo is probably the most interesting test out of all of them. Unfortunately their website says that their Kits for Canada are sold out.

Just ordered my kit. So the kit is additional to the test(weird) total 100. This will be pretty much all companies for me with exception of my heritage since I got that with free upload.

**~~Arborean~~** · 09-10-2018, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by Dick

Apparently not which is bizarre lol if kits are available to US citizens then why not outside of the US

Yea. That’s stupid as shit. It’s just over the border so I don’t see why not. Part of why I wanted to test with them is cause they’re a major funded network so I would like to see how that expands over time. Also there’s a lot of apps. Haplogroup relatives by seeing which mtdna and Ydna famous relatives you have with shared segments(I assume they tested the living descendants of these people).

**Dick** · 09-10-2018, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by Arborean

Just ordered my kit. So the kit is additional to the test(weird) total 100. This will be pretty much all companies for me with exception of my heritage since I got that with free upload.

raw data work with gedmatch too?

**~~Arborean~~** · 09-10-2018, 01:36 AM

Originally Posted by Dick

raw data work with gedmatch too?

Unfortunately no. But you can upload for conversion to FTDNA and then upload to gedmatch from there. Outside of LivingDNA all my gedmatch files are pretty much the same results so I’m not too concerned about this.

**~~Rocinante~~** · 09-10-2018, 03:42 AM

Originally Posted by Token

'Ancestry reports' are made for people that don't know the basics of genetics. If you know at least how ADMIXTURE works and how to use a Gedmatch calculator, they are pretty much useless.

I know, that's why it is better to get a very accurate ancestry report before get into gedmatch, which is the only site to give an almost 100% accurate result.

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