"For one thing, they have a specific focus on Parkinson's Disease (the founder's husband is at high risk), and are involved in its research. They offer a free test kit to anyone diagnosed with the disease." alisande When I read that I went to their website and requested a free test since I have Parkinson's. Just received it earlier this week. After I went through the whole registration I found out I will only have access to ancestry information and not any health information. I would have liked to have had access to that health information but can't complain, it was free after all. Hope my DNA helps with the Parkinson's study. December 2013 – Pending an FDA decision, 23andMe no longer offers new customers access to health reports. Customers who received their health information prior to November 22, 2013 will still be able to see their health reports, but those who purchased after that time will only receive their ancestry information as well as access to their uninterpreted raw data.

What is odd about that? It takes a few days for them to download your raw DNA. You can do a one to one comparison right away, but the one to many takes a little longer. My kit # is A180584. You can compare yourself to me right away. You can write to anyone that you have a connection to. I know about the first 15 people who I have the closest match to. There are different parts to gedmatch. One part you are comparing your DNA to others related to you. There is a different part called admixtures, where you can look at each of your chromosomes to see your ethinic background. I like to use Eurogenes, as it is supposed to be the best one for native american, which I do have a little of. (Piscataway Indian tribe from Md. back in around 1642), which I knew about from family history. I have some 3rd cousins who I share no match with. They thought that was really strange, but since you only get 1/2 of your DNA from each parent, that leaves 1/2 that you did not get. You will enjoy gedmatch! Who knows, Rosefolly, maybe we are related!

Joanie, this blog post might be right up your alley, then. http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/2016/05/15/musings-on-a-dna-sunday/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheLegalGenealogist+%28The+Legal+Genealogist%29 If anyone came over before Ellis Island they might be at Ward's Island/Castle Garden from 1820-1892. http://www.castlegarden.org/ I got good stuff there for great grandparents. Some of mine came over before there was anywhere to be "processed". I still haven't found a passenger list or any evidence of them leaving there and landing here. And of course the Mayflower stuff is so documented you can read about it for days. I don't know how hard you've looked or where but ancestry isn't the only place with good records and lots of places are free. About every 3 years new data bases come on line so don't keep a subscription anywhere year after year. Spread them out. And be sure and use the free ship's lists and Germans to America and google books. There is enough free stuff "out there" to keep you occupied for a long time. I want to know the same things you want to know; more than names and dates. It's Time Consuming. But- so interesting I wouldn't do it any other way. I've written a couple dozen stories about my ancestor couples. It puts their life on paper and shows more about their life than born-died. You can put together a good time line from census and birth of children. One Thing: Census. Read the original census page, not just the transcript. And there are years that have more than one page of answers. Look at the page before and the page after to see if your family is continued. Also, you might find more family near by. Copy everything the census asked. Usually they ask occupation and where an individual and their parents were born. Different questions on different census will add up to the story. Then if you really want the birth certificate or marriage license you can usually get it. One time period I've had the most trouble with is 1800ish. The east coast kept records. The rest........well, it's been a headache. A lot of the midwest states weren't even required to keep records until into 1900. My first piece of advice is to subscribe to some genealogy blogs. They know when new data bases come on line and where to find them. They also know stuff that I don't know I don't know ;-) Even reading someone's Irish blog might give you a clue about where to look or what to look for.

Both colours belong to the Yellow Family & are very similar in Value. In the same space, one might struggle to tell them apart. Accessible Beige has approx. 1 point less Chroma than York Grey. So Accessible Beige is that little bit more neutral. Perhaps where they differ the most, is in terms of redness + greenness. Accessible Beige has an element of redness which sits it slightly more toward the Yellow-Red Hue Family. Whereas York Grey has a near equivalent in greenness, moving it slightly further clockwise on the colour wheel away from the Yellow-Red Hue Family. Should you have low level available light, that little bit of difference between the two may make Accessible Beige the more likely to shift slightly purple than York Grey.