widget wrote:Hi vannin, can you tell me more about 'sending of for DNA'
I would love to find some of my family, have a 2nd cousin who has done a most fantastic family tree, but of course, you cannot put on there living relatives.
Widget, there are special offers available quite regularly, to join the DNA road. Rather than pay a full £130 or whatever it is now - which I would not have dreamed of paying - the reductions can be down to £80 or £95.
If you google Ancestry.co.uk, a screen will come up telling you the info on this. When you apply, they send you a kit with a small test tube and cork; the return packaging/envelope and instructions. You spit into the test tube and cork it, follow the instructions and send it away. Mine went to the USA via Dublin, not sure why. It can take three weeks to get their notification which says you are now tested and listed on the 'matching cousins' pages and gives the link for the site. At present my listing has 134 names going from 1st cousins to 8th. I only comb through the names as far as fourth! If you think someone's name looks familiar, you can look up geographical data and names on that person's tree IF they have made one; and drop a message to them and hope they respond.
Trouble is, some people go into their shell and don't want to respond. Others use just their initials or a username like vannin or widget, but I entered my info as my valid name as also my discovered folks entered theirs. Good luck.