FDA halts sales of 23andMe DNA test kits

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41. They report percentages of various ethnic groups

It also finds cousins from parents back 5 or 6 (I forget which) generations. And the report shows you exactly which parts of your chromosome match those of someone else you are looking at.

In the special case of mitochondrial (maternal line) dna and Y-chromosome (paternal line) dna, those tests allow you to establish relationships much farther back. But it also finds relatives who are not on either of those lines (most cousins are not)

You probably want to take the Family Finder test, it's only $99. In my case, it found hundreds of people in its database, inclulding fifth cousins. But anyone has lots of fifth cousins they don't know about. Most people are not in their database, but it will probably find a lot of your cousins who are.