FamilyTreeDNAReviews of familytreedna.com

Do your atDNA test at Ancestry.com and transfer the results to FamilyTreeDNA.com, Gedmatch.com, etc. Use all the tools at all web sites. Males Test your yDNA and mtDNA and females test your mtDNA at FamilyTreeDNA.com Use all their tools and join groups that can help. Note that males with 12 marker exact matches are all cousins. Common ancestor could live next door or was born thousands of years ago. Create pedigree charts for all 12 marker exact matches. Some will be dead. The Big Y 700 will help determine how closely your matches are related to you. I do not like the current need to use family trees at MyHeritage. And server? response is slow for searches.

Family Tree DNA’s BigY-700 is the best Y-DNA test available, supported by an active community of volunteer experts to help interpret results (official and unofficial Facebook groups can be valuable resources for new and experienced users alike). However, the website feels outdated and slow, and some community advice can be misleading. For example, BigY may only provide for some testers a Y-haplogroup dating back over 2000 years, and additional costly tests are often necessary. Furthermore, some recommendations—like testing close relatives to have private variants named—may not align with all users' goals. Other products: autosomal DNA just OK (now they offer a partial Y-haplogroup usually several thousdand years old, something that 23andMe has been doing for years); mtFull Sequence (not very useful for genealogy. Lots of room for improvement in the way these results are presented).

Unparalleled product/database for Y DNA and mtDNA

The BigY is magnificent - I'm making a serious breakthrough in Scottish/Caribbean history, and the Surname Project volunteers I'm involved with are wonderful. Great company :)

I have never had any problem with Family Tree DNA, and have done all of the testing available to me. Additionally, their surname group projects are very helpful, and they allow the uploading of data from other companies for Autosomal comparisons. All of our family members who have done DNA testing have done it through Family Tree, and there have not been any complaints. I recommend Family Tree to anyone who wants to do DNA testing.

A great DNA sequencing company with good customer service.

Their Y test helped to solve 2 family mysteries. No other way would have been able to do that.

Useful and powerful DNA tools- the only company that provides full Y testing. But educate yourself first as to what these tests can and cannot do for you.