[RASEY-DNA] Ancestry.com partners with Sorenson Genomics

[Diana Gale Matthiesen]

Hello List,

On the commercial DNA testing front, a partnership has been formed beween
Ancestry.com and Sorenson Genomics.  One effect of this partnership is that the
DNA data from SG's testing company, Relative Genetics, will be migrating to
Ancestry.com and will be accessible to Ancestry.com subscribers.  I view this
partnership as an attempt to compete financially with the FamilyTreeDNA
jugernaut, but that's just my personal opinion.  (And I have always wondered
what broke up the earlier partnership between Ancestry and FTDNA.  One wonders
who most regrets that split...)

This partnership between Ancestry and SG should have little affect on those of
us with projects based here at FTDNA, that is, unless Ancestry starts supporting
competing projects, which I would view as a bad development for everyone.  On
the up side, the appearance of DNA data at Ancestry.com should go a long way
towards legitimizing and popularizing DNA testing for genealogy, which has to be
viewed as a very good development.

Time will tell...

Diana