TESTING DIDN'T MATCH ME TO MY UNCLE

[thulteng]

Before my uncle (mother's oldest brother) passed away a couple of years ago, I paid to have Y67 DNA testing performed thru FTDNA in an attempt to connect our family with the Palatines who came from Germany in 1709-1710. Recently I did testing through Ancestry.com to dig further into my Finnish roots, and last week FTDNA let me download my raw autosomal data from ancestry into FTDNA. I fully expected to see my uncle show up in my "matches," but he did not. I know my mom and uncle both had the same mother, so shouldn't he have been matched to me? Thanks.

[LynCra]

You cannot compare Y-DNA and autosomal DNA. If you had a Family Finder test on your uncle then you could expect to see a match with your transferred data.

[thulteng]

LynCr

Thank you!

[mhill]

Family Finder Test

FYI, whoever owns your uncle's FTDNA account may be able to order autosomal DNA results (Family Finder) for your uncle, assuming FTNA has a sample of his DNA in storage from the Y-DNA test.

[lgmayka]

Your mtDNA would match your maternal uncle's--but you didn't test mtDNA.