TUTORIALS

FTDNA presents a series of links that will help you better understand Genetic Genealogy, its terms and uses. Along with our own glossary and tutorials we are also referring you to well-organized pages from some of our customers, which contain a substantial amount of useful information.

BEFORE TESTING - Getting acquainted

• THE TEST KIT - Here is the test kit see how it looks and learn how to use it

• THE LAB PROCESS - Take a peek at the process from the cheek scraping to lab processing

• GLOSSARY - Get familiar with the words a glossary of words used in Genetic Genealogy

• BASIC TUTORIAL - Now that you have the tools read the tutorial "The basics of Genetic Genealogy"

• THE FTDNA DIFFERENCE - Finally, here is what differentiates us from the rest

AFTER TESTING - What do results mean

• Reading and comparing results

• Understanding 12-marker matches

• Understanding 25-marker matches

• Understanding 37-marker matches

• Understanding 67-marker matches

• Time to Most Recent Common Ancestry Calculator

Other visual resources (may require high-speed Internet connection):

• Power Point A downloadable tutorial for presentations

• Video Genetic Genealogy in the eyes of our customers

Browse through some highly informative web sites:

• Blair DNA Project DNA 101: Y-Chromosome Testing

• Kerchner DNA Testing Genetics 101 - Intro report

• L.David Roper Report Y-DNA Comparisons