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does anyone know where i can find someone to do my Family Tree DNA Testing?

Hi I trying to do my family tree. The thing is do you know where i can go and get a dna test to found people in the past with my dna.Also I want to know if someone could do it for me and i just pay them to look up all my family history.

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1. I'd be happy to help you with your family tree. Just go to my profile and send me an email. =)
2. Try Ancestry.com or AfricanAncestry.com. They both offer DNA testing. The prices vary. And yes, there are professional genealogists out there who will look up your family history for a fee. Be extremely careful. I've seen prices ranging from $10 per hour to a package that is $1900 for 30 hours of research. That comes to about $63 per hour. Does your family have family reunions? If so, chances are, there is someone in your family already doing research. Contact them. Most family members are willing to share their info for free, or produce a family history book for the reunion at a nominal fee. Check out the list of professional genealogists at the site below:
3. looking up "all my family history" can take years, and can be expensive. And dna testing (which also costs) does not do exactly what you are looking for it to do. One major drawback relating to research is that it is not wise to simply do it all online. Many of the records are ONLY accessible by immediate family members. You can find one good tutorial at www.rootsweb.com (linked on the front page). Aside from that.. all persons here are volunteers, who can help you. Even with 30+ yrs experience.. I ask questions here.. and have gotten help. The key is that you get replies from MORE THAN ONE person when you post a question, and often, all of the replies are of value.
4. There are 3 types of DNA Y which goes from father to son only. Mitochondrial which goes from mother to both sons and daughters but only the daughters pass it on to their children. Autosomal which you get 50-50 from both parents but when you get back to your grandparents it will not be 25-25-25-25. You get 50% from your paternal grandparents and 50% from your maternal grandparents but it will not be an even breakdown between grandmother and grandfather in both cases. How you inherited this bias will not necessarily be how your siblings inherited it unless you have an identical twin. People use Y & Mitochondrial in genealogy as they both go back in a straight line virtually unchanged. However they represent a teeny weeny part of your total ancestry. If a person involved in family history uses them to match themselves with other family trees, they stand a chance of discovering even the left out ancestors. One company that only uses Y & Mitochondrial advertises they will help you "discover your deep ancestral roots." It is true in those 2 lines only, they will assign you to a Haplogroup based on your DNA and show you the origin of your nomadic ancestor going back thousands of years. But you come from a vast myriad of family lines. You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, 16 great great grandparents. It doubles up each generation you go back. If you were a male you get your Y from only one person in each generation and if you are male and female you get your Mitochondrial from only one person in each generation. But if you are successful in matching yourself with other family trees along with research, you no doubt will discover some of the left out people. You have to use it in conjunction with family research. Here is a link to a website that does Y & Mitochondrial for this purpose. http://www.FamilyTreeDNA.Com When you go into their website, if you click on "Feedback" at the top there is a way you can email them and ask questions. Using Autosomal DNA for genealogy is too complicated, at least at present. However, there is one company in the U.S. I know of that will take you Autosomal and match you with population groups throughout the world. They have over 900 batches of 100-150 samples of DNA. They won't tell you that you are 1/2 of something, 1/4 of something else and 1/4 of another something else. They can't do that as the same DNA crosses national, racial and ethnic boundaries. There are no pure nationalities, races or ethnicities. What they will do is give you your matches starting with the top in descending order. The company is http://www.DNATribes.Com When you go into their website if you click on Feedback at the top there is a way you can email them and ask questions. Most of your DNA is Autosomal. You get 23 chromosomes each from both parents. The two that determine a person's sex, one from each parent, are the ones made up of Y & Mitochondrial. The other 44, 22 from each parent are made up of your Autosomal DNA. Autosomal is what determines your appearance such as your pigmentation, height, bone structure. Now, I ask DNATribes if my sister with whom I share both parents had the same Autosomal Test would her results be the same and they replied: "Two siblings will each obtain unique results. Family members do typically share some regional or ethnic genetic affiliations, but in some cases matches can vary substantially between siblings." I would imagine this is because in the differences of what we inherit from our grandparents. Also I asked DNATribes if they could break it down between my father and my mother and they replied: "To isolate each parent's genetic contribution in each case, it is necessary to test at least one parent as well. " Now, FamilyTreeDNA does do Autosomal testing but they will not provide you with any type of analysis. I think at one time they did. I had to send my results from them to DNATribes. Here are a couple of more links explaining DNA http://www.smgf.org/pages/how_it_works.jspx http://www.pa.msu.edu/~sciencet/ask_st/060293.html
5. I used www.familytreedna.com, billed as the first, the largest, and best such site. There are many others that specialize. Another suggestion: DNA testing. While I used www.familytreedna.com, there are several others of good reputation, such as http://www.africanancestry.com or these sites: Have a look at these sites these are South African ones, http://genealogy.about.com/od/south_afri... http://www.rupert.net/~lkool/page2.html.... http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica/website... http://southafricanfamilyhistory.wordpre... or: Here are some general sites with lists of African names: http://www.swagga.com/fname.htm Of course, depending upon where your ancestors are from, there are ones that specialize in India, the rest of Asia, the Middle East... So, have a look and see which best suits your needs.
6. DNA testing is done in a lab and must be compared to existing testing to determine the matching categories. It is to bad the you had someone else look up you family history, unless that were a professional (which are very expense) and included all their sources I would be suspect to the findings. What I have learned is that in Genealogy you do not necessarily get what you pay for. I have been in volved with Genealogy since before DNA testing was prefected and have never heard of a lab that provided results of testing free. Free test kits perhapes but not free results.
7. FamilyTreeDNA is a good place to start for DNA testing - once done, you can link to YSearch and see if anyone else matches your markers - do at least 37 markers for testing purposes - 67 is best - I've done the 37 marker test - but it raised more questions than provided answers - I had contact with someone who traced their family tree back to the same ancestor that I did - through different sons of his - but when we took the DNA test - we found out we're not related! I did find someone in Canada that closely matches my markers, but so far, we haven't found a link in our trees - so we keep looking - it's part of the process. - I would still recommend the test as it has helped link many family members that otherwise would have never found out a relationship. Good Luck!