Testimonials

I have to say I love my Native American DNA Fingerprint Plus report. My family always wondered if we have Native American ancestry through my dad's father's side, since my Grandpa's facial features (especially his nose), since we really don't know much about my grandpa's side of the family. I found out that my Native American DNA comes from the Miwok Indians of California. MY report also told me my European ancestry, and correctly guessed my Asian and Austronesian ancestry. Since my mom is from the Philippines, and since Filipinos are Austronesian like the people of Malaysia, I wasn't surprised that I had that in me. It also stated that I have Japanese and Chinese ancestry, which is not surprising since a lot of Chinese and Japanese ppl migrated to the Philippines since the 1500's. I'm so happy of my DNA test!!

I've been playing with GedMatch and thinking. It doesn't seem that it would be that crazy to create a database that correlates the matches between individuals and their (non-famous) ancestors. I believe I read about you doing something with your siblings and one of your parents (that you didn't have access to their dna). Is there a program out there or a project that does this?

Every DNA test I've had had shown Native American ancestry, which I knew from my family history and tree. However, with Ancestry's last update, they removed my Native American and increased my Scottish ancestry. Like others this happened to, I wasn't happy about that. A cousin recently shared with me that she and other members of her family had done the Native American DNA Fingerprint Plus test and were very pleased with the results. So I had it done and just got my results. It not only affirms my Native American ancestry but validated two other categories of interest to me: Romani and Melungeon. I have been in a Romani research group for some time, matching my Romani descendants but had been unable to 'prove' I have Romani ancestors. Now I have the proof. I had only recently discovered I have Redbone ancestry, which is most likely the Mulungeon showing up on this report.

I got your Jewish test a couple of years ago that showed I had Jewish alleles. I have a Native American 10th great grandmother who was a member of the Mohawk Tribe. I'm wondering if one of your tests (preferably a cheaper one) would show this ancestry?

I was excited to see the Native American DNA test until I read which ones were included. My husband's brick wall is on his maternal side with his Grandmother's story of 100% Claim of Canadian indigenous connection. Unfortunately his mother died in 2005 and we have no DNA information on her. We have mtDNA which is N1b1b1 from FTDNA. I have also been at RootTech this year and was advised to try 23&Me. Comments would be appreciated. Saundra and Kirk Ashley