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

[Jim Tyler]

Greetings,
Is there a difference in reporting criminal DNA and genealogy DNA?
A couple of weeks ago on 60 Minutes (CBS) a story on DNA showed two
measurements at each locus. We only have one. Why?
I hope this partnership is better than some of the stuff that comes up on
Ancestry. During the Winter our daughter started a Family Tree that I
expanded with the known information at hand. Then the Ancestry lines were
added following their input from genealogies in their database. OK. So far
so good. Go to the search for "Famous Ancestors". I have found a number of
impossibilities; i.e. links to Peter the Great and Catherine the Great via
the Rasey line that includes the MacLeods! Another one linked me to a
Mayflower Passenger by way of an unmarried woman! However, a closer more
plausible link turned up in examining the Mayflower genealogies through five
generations. I can thank gr-grandmother Ermina Hale Rasey for that.
Best regards,
Jim


On 8/2/07, Diana Gale Matthiesen <DianaGM at dgmweb.net> wrote:

>

> 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

>

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