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Re RootsTech 2024:
A kind request to anyone participating in person and meeting people from FTDNA: Could you please ask if there are plans to have more language versions?
Recently I manged to locate my cousin, our lines split around 200 years ago. When writing the email explaining the benefits of Y-DNA and Big-Y testing I realized that if he does not know English or Spanish, as I suspect, then the chance of him agreeing to my proposal of having him tested are close to zero, even as I offered to cover all the costs, as he would not be able to control his kit. He knows me only from a phone call and and an email so unlikely that he would accept me as the kit administrator. It is one more reason for a low coverage in Poland, I believe, apart from the main driver, the cost.
FTDNA could learn from MyHeritage, which has several language versions. It does not take so much effort/money to translate, especially as the content is pretty static.

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