DNA Testing Your Relatives

DNA Testing Your Relatives

Getting your relatives to take DNA tests can boost your knowledge about your genetic connections—and can get family members more interested in their roots. Here are 5 important tips for DNA testing your relatives. Did you SEE those holiday price wars at the DNA...
Organizing DNA Matches: 3 Steps

Organizing DNA Matches: 3 Steps

Get started organizing your DNA matches with these 3 suggestions for turning your jumbled list into an organized group of genetic networks—and eventually, a better family tree. At my house, I can tell whose turn it is to unload the dishwasher by the state of the...
What to Do with Your Raw DNA

What to Do with Your Raw DNA

Your raw DNA doesn’t just need to stay on your testing website. Download it and learn more from it at websites such as these ones. With AncestryDNA’s recent announcement that their database is over 2 million participants strong, it is clear that many of you have...
Why Take a Y DNA Test

Why Take a Y DNA Test

Why take a Y DNA test? Here’s why YDNA testing is so popular—and 3 reasons to consider why you should do it (or have a male relative test) for your family history. The Y chromosome DNA test, more affectionately referred to as the Y DNA test, is the darling of the DNA...
Open Letter to DNA Testing Companies

Open Letter to DNA Testing Companies

Competition in DNA testing can only be good for the genetic genealogy world. Please, someone come up with a product to rival AncestryDNA! AncestryDNA recently began selling DNA test kits in Canada and Australia. That’s great—but I’m not ready for Ancestry to literally...