23andme Reviews

Got test as gift and it worked great

The best out of three I ve tested with Ancestry DNA and found their results informational and generally interesting but i needed to get more specific and they are better at linking people up than providing family depth I then tested with Living DNA out of the UK and found several issues with them as to recommend not bothering with their service - see separate review I then went further and tested with 23 Me and was like another reviewer stated blown away I guess its due to how let down I felt by the first two companies especially Living DNA and also by how I ve literally spent hours pouring through every facet of 23 Me s website uncovering all sorts of interesting stuff Of the three companies Ancestry DNA seemed pretty accurate but far too broad and 23 Me provided the highly drilled down results for municipalities across Europe that i only hoped for in the promise from Living DNA Point in fact that company for some reason can t even label their results map so you re stuck looking at colored regions only I could break out a coloring book and do the same and this was after i got my paid results where they supposedly drilled down 23 Me has a lot of up front feature rich reports that if you re inclined to spend some time digging into them you ll likely find a lot of unexpected information As an example of a sideline report I found that if i opt into the shared relatives function that i can infer other connections where my main reports may not show i e Italian but i have near relatives that are in that location This means that i didn t perhaps inherit that piece of DNA but have other shared DNA tying them to me I really liked the Chromosome painting where i could without having a parent submit a sample get a pretty good idea of which of the lines for each chromosome pair belonged to which parent just by knowing a little family history If you connect a parent as well then it gets even more specific as well as defining with certainty which parent you inherited traits from The company also provided a fairly top level but still interesting feature that no one else has where they show you the most recent 100 ancestor for a given area several are listed and they lay it out on a timeline as to when that DNA was inherited Pretty cool My overall experience during this crazy 2020 year was about 4 weeks start to finish and being wowed with all of the content of their site