Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Family Tree DNA has some big changes coming that will greatly improve everything. They are changing to Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) from SNP microarray, adding new discover tools to their autosomal DNA test called Family Finder, and they are changing to a username based login system from their old kit-based login system.

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