Choosing a DNA test for the remaining male relative on paternal line

[Sarco]

Nothing to do with DNA but in my SMEDLEY ancestral village of Sawley in Derbyshire, a twitchell is a small lane that runs between houses (as I understand it) and is still in use today. I've heard it used in context in two recent visits.

Darryl
Sydney Australia

[joboy]

Nothing to do with DNA but in my SMEDLEY ancestral village of Sawley in Derbyshire, a twitchell is a small lane that runs between houses (as I understand it) and is still in use today. I've heard it used in context in two recent visits.

Darryl
Sydney Australia

Thank you for that Darryl ..... it only goes to show that these very old villages maintain the old stuff.
May it always be so,
Joe

[confused73]

A twitchin ,maybe also with a g at the end , is a lane between houses still used in Sussex .

[huntingforUKrelatives]

Hi Ann,

Since he is the last male of that line, I would STRONGLY encourage getting his Y-DNA. I would do a miminum 37 marker test as you can always upgrade it later to higher markers when finances permit it. I would also do his autosomal DNA. And, if able to swing an MtDNA test, I would do that as well. But I believe the Y-DNA is the most important of the three because you will have nobody else to provide that once he is gone.

Regards,
Steve
Phoenix, AZ

[HarrisonHart]

I am by no means an expert but if money was short I would just get the family finder test for now and upgrade to Y and MT later.  The only annoyance with FTDNA is that you can not transfer from their database to Ancestry and 23 and me etc (as far as I understand it).  Where as you can t/f the other way.  But surely Ancestry will have to become more flexible with time, because if you have DNA results (and the person whose results they are has subsequently died), it is like another piece of family history, and it would be utterly stupid for ancestry to pout and say 'nope, you can not trace your dna relatives with us because you did not submit the sample directly to us'.

Anyway my main point is, get the swab - ASAP - lest it be lost forever.

[Erin2012]

My brother did 23 and me... It was $99 USD. There is no Denisovan indicators, whiich other sites offer. But we did get a list of over 900 people we share maternal or paternal DNA with.