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Prices and other considerations
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Click here to order a Phelps project DNA test at Family Tree DNA
Other considerations The DNA information is to be used in conjunction with historical and traditional research. DNA testing will prove a common ancestor and can be extremely helpful in guiding research. On the other hand, if a DNA profile does not match traditional researched genealogy, a hypothesized relationship may be incorrect. At other times DNA results may point to an unknown adoption in the family, or some other so-called non-paternity event. Please understand that the y-dna results may not confirm even the most meticulous researched family genealogy. Your ancestries will always be displayed as you have provided, but may not be indicated as "proven" or "confirmed" if there are insufficient or contradictory y-dna tests. I urge you to NOT test the DNA of a close relative which would point to a living common ancestor. There is no point in doing so since your dna should match almost perfectly and you have proved nothing. On the other hand, if your dna does not match you have unnerving information. added 2/2007 Once your order is placed you are automatically a member. Your kit number and earliest ancestor will appear on the "Y-results" page of the Phelps FTDNA page. Your supplied ancestry and your DNA kit number will appear on this page. As a member you will have access to a private "forum" at a Google discussion group just for you family line.
You may want to read the article "What Are The Rewards And Risks of DNA Testing"? found at http://www.kerchner.com/anonftp/pub/introg&g.htm Since a Surname Project traces members of a family that share a common surname, and females (a) don't carry their father's Y-DNA, and (b) acquire a new surname by the way of marriage, in order to be relevant to the Surname Project, the tested individual must be a male that wants to check his paternal line (father's father's father's...). The test to be ordered is either the Y-DNA 59, Y-DNA37, Y-DNA25 or Y-DNA12, and females should look for a brother or cousin with that surname to be tested. Remember that Y-DNA testing is strictly for the male inherited chromosomes. It has nothing to do with physical characteristics. A test submitted has no affidavit proving who took the test. However, if you want to completely isolate yourself, have the kit mailed to a person to be tested at your home address using the name of a non-existing person – or even a test naming your wife or anyone with any name you choose. Of course, it must be deliverable. The scraping would be done by you but the release signature and the identified name on the kit would name the other person (real or not). For example, it could be sent to a fictitious Eunice Phelps named as the one taking the test, in care of you or your wife at your address. The usual release-of-information signature would have the signature of Eunice Phelps. FTDNA does not care. Only those of us who are doing genealogy would know that it is of your male line – at least we hope so - but have no proof of it. We don’t really have to know if it was from you or your close male Phelps relative.Additionally, we at our volunteer Phelps genealogy web site would like to list your ancestry (no living people) and include your kit number and the name Eunice Phelps (as an example). Those that need to know would be told of how to contact you – if you allowed that. We strongly recommend to not test more than one member of the same family lineage (son, father, uncle, grandfather for example). There is no point in doing this since the Y-DNA is the same for all. If you have further concerns about privacy at the testing company, give FTDNA a call at (713) 868-1438. They are open to any questions.
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