Countdown to I4GG
Jealous no more! Did you sit there this past week, turning green at the posts from students in the DNA class at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh? Did you try to get into one of the DNA courses at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy in January, only...An open letter to my DNA cousins
Talk to me, please! Dear DNA cousins, You know who you are. You’re the ones who’ve recently tested with 23andMe. Your results have only just come in within the last little while. One of you is projected to be The Legal Genealogist’s second cousin. I...A health data option
Promethease: a place to start It is and has always been a common question among people thinking about DNA testing, and it’s one that’s perplexing reader Madge Gunia. “Where should I go for info on health and family members?” she asks. “I am an adoptee who...Calling all Geno 2.0 testers
What’s your number? So… did you test with National Geographic’s Geno 2.0 project? If so, the International Society of Genetic Genealogists (ISOGG) — and The Legal Genealogist — and the entire genetic genealogy community — we all...A cautionary note on DNA tree matching
Linking family trees and DNA You might, if you were so inclined, call it the Holy Grail of genetic genealogy. Putting your tree online with your genetic information, and having it link — automatically — to everyone else you’re related to. Imagine,...Showing the way on DNA
Show-and-tell for DNA info If there’s one thing people complain about, over and over, it’s that figuring out how to really use DNA testing in genealogy is hard. And they’re right. The Legal Genealogist agrees 100%. It is hard. And thank heavens there...Biting on the Big Y
Paternal DNA Once again, it’s Father’s Day and DNA Sunday here at The Legal Genealogist … so how better to celebrate the day than to give the men in my direct paternal line the gift of more information on their DNA? A lot more information. I mean, what else do you get...Ancestry responds
DNA samples will be destroyed Last week, Ancestry announced that it was discontinuing two types of DNA tests — the YDNA test (the male line testing of the DNA passed from father to son to son and so on) and the mitochondrial DNA test (the female line testing of...Why, Ancestry? Why?
Preserving the evidence “Family history is in our DNA,” reads the ad at AncestryDNA’s website. “What’s in yours?” Anyone who has paid attention to the DNA offerings at Ancestry.com in recent months couldn’t have been surprised...Subscribe by Email
