Should you take an mtDNA test for genetic genealogy? Here’s a free video tutorial and 3 scenarios when mtDNA testing can help your family history. DNA testing is becoming more and more integrated into our traditional genealogical research. Millions of people have...
Why take a DNA test now? If you haven’t already taken a DNA test for genealogy, here are 4 reasons not to put it off any longer. Journalist Malcom Gladwell uses economic principles to study human behavior. He describes a moment in time we all instinctively know: the...
Combine DNA tests to help find birth parents or identify ancestors! This tasty example for an adoptee combines autosomal plus mtDNA testing to help identify a DNA match on her maternal line. My family recently visited the Jelly Belly Factory in northern California. Of...
DNA testing on hair samples hopes to shed light on pirates and Polynesian women associated with the legendary HMS Bounty. Does this mean you can send a relative’s lock of hair for DNA testing, too? HMS Bounty provides DNA bounty Sometimes history provides us with a...
The National Genographic Project takes its massive DNA study to New Zealand to investigate a historic genetic collision of populations. Here’s how that impacts the everyday genetic genealogist. Update, May 2020: The National Genographic Project is coming to a close,...
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