An ongoing journal of genealogical and family discovery.
This article’s subject is almost pure speculation, based on a dollop of data that we currently have and a single historical mention. Much more testing and additional historical documentation need to be added before it can more from a simple Read More …
A couple DNA service providers have started their Father’s Day sales. I’ll update this over the next week if new ones show up: 23AndMe.com Thru June 20th https://www.23andme.com/ AncestryDNA Thru June 20th https://www.ancestry.com/ FamilyTreeDNA Thru June 20th https://www.familytreedna.com/ MyHeritage Thru Read More …
This coming Sunday, 25 April 2021, is National DNA Day! What is National DNA Day? According to the National Human Genome Research Institute, it “commemorates the completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of DNA’s double Read More …
Since I’m on a bit of a DNA testing kick and the test is on sale (until 3 January 2021!), I decided to go ahead and purchase the Family Tree DNA Big-Y700 test. It isn’t the cheapest test out there, Read More …
“You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?” Charlie Kaufman In Conclusion As much as I’d like to, I haven’t gotten as much real genealogical utility as I’d have liked to from the tests Read More …
“Human DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software we’ve ever created.” Bill Gates mtDNA Haplogroups In addition to the paternal Y-DNA haplogroup, 23andMe also analyzed and reported my maternal mtDNA haplogroup. Unlike the Read More …
“DNA, you know, is Midas’ gold. Everyone who touches it goes mad.” Maurice Wilkins, co-recipient of 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Y-DNA Haplogroups One of the primary reasons I took the 23andMe test was because it offered haplogroup Read More …
“DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.“ Richard Dawkins Time for a DNA update, along with my current thoughts on DNA and whether it is helping me study my family’s genealogy. This has Read More …
I mentioned in a previous post that I received an AncestryDNA kit for Christmas this past year. The kit was relatively simple to use, just spit in a small tube up to the level of a line, then mix with Read More …