Your Personal Page at FTDNAi is a key part of the process. When you are tested at Family Tree DNA, you will be allowed to manage the information that you give about yourself
and the information you receive about your test resultsi.
You will be able to control how you are notified, who is notified about your test results and matches, and whether your matches are compared against just the surname project or the entire database.
You'll also be able to choose how many markers to use in displaying your matches: 12, 25, 37, or 67.
This will be the place where you can post your most distant known relative and your city or country of origin, which is very important piece of information which will be displayed with your test results and will be helpful to those you match.
This is also the page where FTDNA will give you all the information about your test results: your test result markers, your matches, your haplogroupi, along with explanations of what it all means.
Here also are links that will allow you to order upgrades and certificates, track the progress of your test through the FTDNA labs, and upload your results to Y-search and your GEDCOMi to FTDNA.
You are given access to your Personal Page in two stages, which we call Access Your Personal Page and Update Your Personal Page.
Stage 1 (Access Your Personal Page) is the period after your test kit is returned, but before your test results are ready. During this time you will receive the password to the page, and you will have limited access to the page, primarily for the purpose of adding your information and tracking your test while it is in the lab.
Stage 2 (Update Your Personal Page) comes after you are notified that your test results are ready. Now you have many more options to choose about how your matches are displayed, uploading your GEDCOM, uploading your results to Y-search, and you can view lots of information about your test results.
(To see an example of a Personal Page at FTDNA, click here.)
This is the part of the personal pagei you are given as soon as your test kit is returned.
When your kit is returned, you will be given limited access to your "personal page" at FTDNA.
When your kit is returned, you will be given limited access to your "personal page" at FTDNA.
You will need your kit number and a password (which FTDNA will send to you) to get into your “personal page”.
During Stage 1, you will have the ability to do the following.
- Order Tests & Upgrades (Standard and Advanced options)
- FTDNA has divided their orders into standard and advanced. (You will find most of the tests you want in the standard orders selection.)
- Standard Orders include Y-DNA 12, 25, 37, 67. and upgrades between them, as well as mtDNAi mtDNA Plus, and mtDNA Full Sequence, and their upgrades.
- Advanced Orders include individual markers and panels, X Chromosomei, and Autosomal DNA.
- FTDNA can run all the tests you order from your initial sample. They commit to retain your sample for 25 years.
- To order an upgrade: Click on "Standard Orders".
1.. At the bottom of the page, click on the down arrow to see the range of upgrade choices
2. Select the one you want, confirm your personal info and select method of payment
3. Click “Continue” and complete your order
- FTDNA has divided their orders into standard and advanced. (You will find most of the tests you want in the standard orders selection.)
- Order Certificates To see samples of the certificates from FTDNA, click here.
- Modify your Contact Information. Be sure to change your email address if it changes. You can also give access to a second person by listing his/her email address here.
- Pending Lab Results will allow you to track your kit as the lab processes it. Keep in mind that the target results date is an estimate. If your result is more than a week late, typically FTDNA is rerunning the test in order to be certain of your result.
However, you do not have access to most parts of the FTDNA structure until your results are in. You cannot join additional projects or make comparisons outside the project at this stage.
