I went with 23andme because in Canada they still give the health results. Plus I wanted to see how much First Nations I was. It was about right. I was surprised to find that I only had 1% French since my mother's father was a very proud French man and "full" French. Hmmm.

Cookie8:

Your family legend says your grandfather claimed to be French and yet you show only 1% French. Speculations can generate several interesting postulates, however, there is one possibility that many searchers forget and that is your Grandparents may have lived in France and maybe had a French surname, but were not of French lineage. They could have been transplants from another region. Also, your grandparents' parents may not have been French. Another possibility would be if you were adopted and never told. Your lineage could much different than that of your "Grandparents".

DH and I just submitted ours with Family Tree DNA and are awaiting results.

Jemdandy, I figured that about his family as being transplants, or I thought my grandfather may have been adopted, as I am pretty positive it isn't me (my very white woman phenotype with 27% Native DNA), it may have been my mother adopted? although she looks a very similar mix between grandmother and grandfather, or as my mother always stated, she doesn't think her father is her real father. Because of the war the timeline didn't add up. But who she thinks was the father would still give me French lineage because it was my grandfather's brother who was in question. Yes their surname was quite French.

My husband and I have both had the ancestry autosomal test done. It gives its result in terms of "cousins" but using othe information, you can determine if your match to other people are actually nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, parens, etc. You do get information on family origin. Many people who are into genealogy use ancestry because they are working on family trees and you get lists of matches that you can contact. I have found quite a few relatives on both of our families through doing this. My husband has also done a Y DNA test through familytreedna. This test is for following the male line back - in other words, father, grandfather, etc. Again we were trying to get back another generation from his known GGGGGrandfather. I was hoping he would match a know descendant from someone back in 1640. The known descendant of this 1640 guy agreed to pay and take his own test for us. There was no match whatsoever. However, we did get a close match to a 4th cousin that verified back to the GGGGrandfather. We have since made a trip up to the Savannah area, met the family and walked on land owned by the ancestors back in 1785!

Familytreedna also does "cousin testing", its called familyfinder and they do Mtdna which is the mother's line. There is a sight called gedmatch where you can upload your results from these tests and find matches to anyone else that has uploaded from any of these tests. So you can get matches from your ancestry autsomal tests from people who tested with familytreedna.

If you only want your family origins, then the autosomal is probably the cheapest and right now, through ancestry, its $89, plus shipping. You spit in a tube and mail it back, takes 6-8 weeks for results.

I should have first stated that most of what I wrote about is for genealogy purposes. In the results you get from ancestry or from familytreedna, you get percentages of what your dna makeup is from say Great Britain , Western Europe, Eastern Europe, etc. My hubs results were not surprising that he is 62% Western European but he has more Italian in him than we suspected. We thought it would be French but it turns out the French name in the family (Richarde) was actually a "borrowed" name when the ancestor was challenged to a dual and won, but was then to be arrested. He escaped Italy with the help of a French friend who loaned him his last name! We thought the last name "Boston" was English but it looks like it may be more Scottish.

My test is pretty accurate for what I know. I am largely British, mainly from Wales on both my mom's and dad's side.

I'm doing this as soon as all the boys are married (next month) and we are done helping on the weddings lol!