DNA Test Holiday Sales Have Begun

With American Thanksgiving & Black Friday a little over a week away, the major DNA testing companies have started their annual holiday sales on autosomal DNA testing.  But don't buy solely on price!  Read my previous post about the various testing companies' products before making a purchase decision.

The chart below shows the pricing today on each testing company's US website.  There is no guarantee that there will be a sale today in every geographic area.  e.g. Ancestry.ca does not show a DNA sale at this time, and is selling their DNA test for $129 Cdn.

Pricing varies between $US 49 and $US 79 per kit, with the best price being from 23andMe - $US 49 per kit, if you purchase 2 kits.  What better holiday gift for a couple!

My Heritage DNA and Living DNA are relative newcomers to DNA testing, so their databases are not yet very large, but both are currently accepting free transfers of DNA test results from other testing companies, so this is another opportunity to fish in more ponds, ponds that I expect will become much larger as time goes on.

My recommendation for this year - If you are buying one kit, buy from Family Tree DNA;  but if you are buying two kits, buy from 23andMe and pay the $US19 to then transfer the result to Family Tree DNA - two tests on two sites for $US 136 (effectively $US 34 per test).

Family Tree DNA is also offering sale pricing on various Y-DNA and mitochondrial DNA tests.  Click here for details.  In addition to their sale pricing, Family Tree DNA emails weekly specials to existing customers, discounting some products even further, through promo codes.  You are welcome to use the following promo codes, which have an expiry date of 19 November 2017, and can only be used once, so it is first come first served.  Good luck!

• mtDNA Plus or mtFull Sequence        $10 off     promo code R23QEQJ1VQ6B  
• mtDNA Plus or mtFull Sequence        $10 off     promo code R23RK3CA2I6I
• Big Y                                                    $25 off     promo code R23A8ILV8Q3D

I will post other promo codes (from all of the above companies) as I receive them.