Ethicists and others weigh in
And raise questions that need answers The disclosure earlier this year that a DNA database used almost exclusively by genealogists to help answer family history questions had been used by law enforcement to solve a cold murder case has sparked a continuing — and...One more day to be heard
DNA standards comment period ends tomorrow Tomorrow, the 23rd of July 2018, is the deadline. And it’s important that your voice be heard. What deadline, you ask? The deadline for comments on proposed DNA standards under consideration for adoption by the Board...Calling all (documented) Faures!
Need a documented male from Manakin Town The Legal Genealogist can’t resist trying this one more time. After all, I’m right here in South Carolina, just down the road from where my third great grandfather Jesse Fore enlisted in the South Carolina Militia...Saying thanks for an amazing resource
DNA (and everything else genealogical) on Cyndi’s List Sometimes the question is simply: where do we begin? When we want to learn about a topic as broad as, say, DNA, genetics and health, where do we start? Or, for many of us, when we’d like to give a...It’s not for us to choose
When the DNA results are not what was expected… The question came in again this past week, as it has so many times in recent years. A genealogist had asked others in the family to test to further the genealogist’s own research. When the results came in,...All there is
The roadblock in the Y line It’s a sad state of affairs, for sure, this Father’s Day in the United States, when so many people are celebrating their YDNA forebears. And The Legal Genealogist uses that term “affair” with deliberation since it clearly was an...Ancestry rolling out new percentages
And it’s still not soup The Legal Genealogist was delighted earlier this week to discover that AncestryDNA has now, once again, found the Germans. Not all of them, mind you, not even as many as there were the first time around, but at least some of them —...Weigh in on DNA standards
DNA and the GPS The gold standard for genealogical proofs is the Genealogical Proof Standard — the GPS, for short. Synthesized by the Board for Certification of Genealogists between 1997 and 2000 from decades of work by the best minds in our field, the GPS...The price of sharing
Are we surrendering too much? Genealogy has always been a sharing collegial avocation. All of us, The Legal Genealogist included, learned as baby genealogists that if we wanted to find those elusive ancestors hiding amidst the branches of our family trees, we needed...Subscribe by Email
