Testimonials

So glad I tested with DNA Consultants! Donald Yates' research is cutting edge in the world of marrying DNA testing with history.

Thank you so much! I'm so excited! I'm just amazed by the Akhenaten gene... that one REALLY blew me away. I love that I have these ethnicities that make me up. I look like all of them... I have brown hair but hazel, brown, green eyes. I'm short with fair skin that burns and then tans. I have the physical illnesses that native americans are prone to... I just love so much that I went with DNA Consultants first rather than go with Ancestry DNA when it came out. I don't think it was available back in 2011 when you were already up and running. I love your service, thank you so much for it!

I'm writing an extensive article about our Native American ancestry, which is a sum total of 30+ years of on and off research. Putting all the research into one article is quite a task, but it's gratifying. The DNA test results from your company are a vital part of that research, and I've even mentioned your investigators' names in my treatise! Thank you, once again, for your wonderful service to us family historians! Dan Sparta, New Jersey

I took this test and got a positive result and certificate. Does that mean I can claim to be Cherokee, or even a Cherokee descendant? NO! To quote the result: “U.S. Cherokee Admixed appears in your top world matches at rank #12. A related population, Native American-Michigan, is #2. It is thus HIGHLY LIKELY (emphasis mine) you have significant amounts of Cherokee ancestry.” Given the reality of intermarriage between nations, the match to a database of genealogically-defined Cherokee descendants and enrolled members means my ancestry could really go back to one of a dozen tribal nations. My genealogy documents descent from Croatoan/Cheraw/Lumbee individuals. This result validates my genealogy. I may find documented links to enrolled Cherokees in the future, or not. But the results have already helped me connect with individuals with the same surnames in two of the nations.

I first did the DNA Fingerprint Test back in 2007. I knew that my father’s family was from Britain via the Deep South, and that my mother’s family was from Tuscany. There was also a family legend of Native American ancestry on my father’s side, and I was trying to either validate or invalidate that lineage. Not only was that lineage validated, the results took my in many directions I hadn’t expected, to North Africa and Iberia, Eastern Europe, to minority tribes in Tibet and China. I even wrote a satire about unexpected the results, “Say It Loud, I’m Afro-Tibetan and Proud!” Since then my genealogy has documented almost all of the link I first thought were errors or “genetic background noise”. Here’s where the most impressive advantage of DNA Consultants kicks in.