Family Tree Dna Family Finder

Family finder uses autosomal dna which is the mixture of dna you received from both parents about 50 from your mother and about 50 from your father.

Family tree dna family finder.

Headquarters in houston texas. Family finder is an autosomal dna test that automatically finds your relatives within 5 generations helping build your family tree. Establishing dna fingerprints for the purpose of determining ancestral pedigrees. The chromosome browser is a feature of our family finder autosomal dna test.

This test is designed to find matches in our massive dna database on all of your ancestral lines within the last five generations. This tool allows you to view and compare the dna segments that you share with your family finder matches. Your dna has met its match. Both men and women can complete this test.

Family finder uses around 700 000 autosomal snps to help find relatives from all parts of one s family tree. 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. 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. Once a fee is paid to family treed dna they send an easy to use test kit.

Because autosomal dna is a mixture of your mother s and father s dna it is unique to each person. Family finder s dna matching feature. The family finder is an autosomal dna test from family tree dna that was first made available in february 2010. Testing is available to both amateur and professional genealogists.

Our signature family finder test focuses on autosomal dna which is inherited from both parents four grandparents eight great grandparents etc. Family finder matches.