I love it. It has the giggle-while-the-hair-stands-up-on-the-back-of-your-head genealogy rush of fun. And it does not stop there. These readings of a man's y-DNA haplogroup provide fun facts and are understood to be fun facts, only. As with all the bells and whistles of the genetic genealogy that we love to bits, I always say, "If … Continue reading OK, ftDNA has put together a really fun feature for y-DNA
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Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.
- A Herstory Guest - I hope my readers will help me welcome our guest blogger, one of my Knight cousins, Charlotte. Her trees and work can be found on ancestry.com and familysearch.org, all the usual places, but with a very special and not so usual story of her Knight ancestry. She has been a … Continue reading Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.
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y-DNA. No, it does not have admixture, but it does have thousands of years of human ancestry.
y-DNA. What is it? Who has heard of it? All the excitement about admixture aka ethnicity in at-DNA testing and matching trees took some of the focus away from the original DNA-for-genealogy testing and my own favorite test: -- y-DNA. What is your y-DNA, if you are a man? (Only men carry y-DNA.) Is it … Continue reading y-DNA. No, it does not have admixture, but it does have thousands of years of human ancestry.
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DNA Downloads, of course you want copies of yourself!
All the companies I use for DNA testing have links to download your DNA raw data. Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, AncestryDNA, and others all have a click here and easily download a copy for your records, for fun to read and look at, for being able to upload to other sites that accept DNA from … Continue reading DNA Downloads, of course you want copies of yourself!
To do this right, you must have the y-dna of all your ancestral lines
...and the autosomal, and for many, the mt-DNA also. The male line y-DNA is the genetic signature of a man's paternal line. It is only their father's father's father's father's father's father, etc. (and all of their sons' sons' sons); no other ancestors, and they should all have the same family name. The mt-DNA, less … Continue reading To do this right, you must have the y-dna of all your ancestral lines
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