Review: New Guide to DNA Testing
A winner of a guide to DNA testing. Informative. Understandable. Solid. Any time The Legal Genealogist can say those three things about a book — and particularly about a book on a topic that can be as hard to comprehend as DNA testing — you know we have a...Buy this book!
DNA Sunday a day early No, it isn’t Sunday. You really didn’t sleep through an extra overnight and lose a day. But around these parts, The Legal Genealogist only ever talks about one thing each year on the anniversary of a particular event, and...Hats off to ISOGG
The award to the wiki The lights have been turned off, the booths dismantled, the speakers scattering to airports, highways and train stations to head home from the 40th annual conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies which has wrapped up in Springfield,...DNA picks at FGS
DNA education at FGS Springfield So this is FGS week and The Legal Genealogist is now officially en route to the 40th annual conference of the Federation of Genealogical Societies in Springfield, Illinois. The conference begins tomorrow, with a full day of lectures...Cool tool at FTDNA
Phased family matches So it’s DNA Sunday here at The Legal Genealogist, and finally there has been enough time and enough information available to really play with a new tool from Family Tree DNA. It’s now possible, by adding even a skeletal family tree to...Those percentages, if you must
Once more unto the breach It just doesn’t seem to matter. No matter how many times The Legal Genealogist says that the ethnicity estimates part of autosomal DNA tests are not a whole lot more than cocktail party conversation,1 that’s what so many people...Following up: oh those circles!
Yes, they can be confusing So yesterday The Legal Genealogist tried to explain DNA Circles and New Ancestor Discoveries (NADs) from AncestryDNA in a plain straightforward way… … and some people ended up even more confused. So let’s hit a few more key...Circling the DNA clues
What Circles and NADs do, and don’t, tell us Reader Wadeanne Nardo is confused by her DNA results on AncestryDNA. “Could you please explain to me,” she asks, “what a DNA circle and NAD (New Ancestor Discovery) is.” It’s easy to see why Wadeanne is —...Sale-ing away with FTDNA
Summer sale announced No, it isn’t DNA Sunday here at The Legal Genealogist. Instead, it’s Christmas in August. Because Family Tree DNA has just announced its summer sale… and it’s a doozy. First off, there are package deals on a number of test...Subscribe by Email
