Y DNA testing is a great way to explore your paternal family line. Here’s a quick get-started video tutorial and two essential tips for taking a YDNA test for family history. Y DNA testing is a specific type of genetic genealogy test that can help answer questions...
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...
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) is now accepting limited autosomal DNA test results, as well as Y DNA evidence for lineage society applications. Membership to the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has been a holy grail for genealogists for 125...
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...
DNA can integrate with surname studies (aka one-name studies), which are a mainstay of traditional genealogical research. See how projects are incorporating DNA into their enormous files of data on individual surnames. Since the advent of surnames, our last names have...
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