Your DNA Guide - the eBook (E-Book)

Your DNA Guide - the eBook written by Diahan Southard is for anyone who has taken a DNA test and wants to learn more. It helps genealogists reconstruct family trees. It helps adoptees identify biological relatives. It can help you identify a specific DNA match. In short, it helps anyone explore what their DNA—and their DNA matches—can tell them about their origins.

You will learn about:

• Choosing a specific DNA question

• Identifying your relationship to your DNA matches

• Step-by-step processes for finding biological parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great-grandparents (and the limits of research beyond that point)

• Communicating effectively with DNA matches

• Using online DNA tools relevant to your question

• Keeping DNA research and discoveries organized

• Building family trees that help your DNA discoveries

• Managing unexpected or sensitive discoveries

• Tracking down living relatives

• How XDNA, mtDNA and YDNA may help 

• Using ancestral ethnicity results in the context of researching family history

• How endogamy and pedigree collapse (when ancestors were related to each other) affect your DNA research

• Basic genetic genealogy terminology and principles you’ll need to know to answer your specific questions