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Thank you for your reply, Ken.

None that I know of. My feeling is don't waste your money until they get a lot cheaper!

Jeanne. Look this up on google and found the following information: Even though siblings share half their DNA, they can share any number of markers in a DNA test.  They might match up at all of them or none of them.  Or more likely, they will match up at some number in between.

This might seem weird at first.  After all, two siblings share half of their DNA.  So they should share of half their DNA in a DNA test too, right?

Well this would be true if a DNA test looked at all of a person’s DNA.  Unfortunately, very few of them do.  Instead, they look at only 15 or 20 out of millions and millions of possible spots.

Because these tests look at so few markers, by chance, one sibling might end up sharing only some DNA at the markers tested.  Or they might not share any DNA at all.

My results from Ancestry were as follows: 56% Great Britain, 34% Europe West, 4% Europe East plus 5 other regions. I was so dissappointed that it wasn't more specfic that I decided to transfer results to Prosapia Genetics. The results from them were 56% Highlands, Scottish, 31.5% Iberian and 11.9% Abkhazian. The GPS tool found my biogeographic point of origin within 218 Kilometeres of Latitude 45.72 and Longitude 7.25. This is a place near Aosta. Apparently These results are often seen among individuals of Swiss origin who came from a genetic pool similar to mine.

Well, I assume my Douglass family must have come from Scotland orginally although I can only trace them back to 1805 in Bethnal Green, London. I was disappointed in the results couldn't tell me more. I have yet to connect to anyone linking to my family tree. Please note I live in England.