Family Tree Dna Family Finder

Family finder uses around 700 000 autosomal snps to help find relatives from all parts of one s family tree.

Family tree dna family finder.

Family finder s dna matching feature. Our signature family finder test focuses on autosomal dna which is inherited from both parents four grandparents eight great grandparents etc. This tool allows you to view and compare the dna segments that you share with your family finder matches. Because autosomal dna is a mixture of your mother s and father s dna it is unique to each person.

Family tree dna is connected with national geographic s genographic project. In fact the company is the testing partner for the project and can find new matches for free if clients transfer their genographic project dna to family tree. Family finder is an autosomal dna test that automatically finds your relatives within 5 generations helping build your family tree. Once a fee is paid to family treed dna they send an easy to use test kit.

Your dna has met its match. This test is designed to find matches in our massive dna database on all of your ancestral lines within the last five generations. Previously dna genealogy tests could only tell a person about a small part of their family tree based on dna from the y chromosome and mitochondria. Another advantage of our family finder dna test is the ability for matches to connect with one another and work together to find common ancestors by sharing genealogical data.

Testing is available to both amateur and professional genealogists. Headquarters in houston texas. It works by comparing your dna to the dna of other users in their massive database. Family finder matches.

Establishing dna fingerprints for the purpose of determining ancestral pedigrees. Both men and women can complete this test.