Tracing Your Ancestors - DNA & Your Genealogy; by Dr. Maurice Gleeson MB; 2018; 66 pp; Soft Cover, Saddle Stapled; ISBN: 978-1-926510-08-8; Item #: MM028

This 66 page DNA guide is the most easy-to understand published to date. Heavily illustrated, this guide is for the rest of us!

The following is from the Table of Contents:

• Preamble
• What's in you closet?
• Why turn to DNA?
• What Companies offer DNA tests?
• What can you get from a DNA test?
• The three main DNA tests (and what they can do for you)
• Which DNA test is best for me?

• A closer look at chromosomes
• The two different types of DNA Marker
• The Human Evolutionary Tree

• The types of Y-DNA test
• Understanding your Y-DNA results
• Your Place on the Tree of Mankind
• Why join a Surname Project
• Anatomy of a Surname Project
• Further study & resources

• Some more basic science
• Applying mtDNA to your genealogy

• What is asDNA?
• The mechanics of atDNA transmission and inheritance
• Recombination (Crossing Over) - shuffling the pack
• Independent Assortment - random sorting of chromosomes
• How much DNA do I share with my relatives?
• Genetic Population Admixture Estimates ("ethnic makeup")

• Secrets of Success
• Analyzing Autosomal DNA Matches
• Step 1 - Where does the common ancestor sit on your tree?
• Step 2 - Is the common ancestor obvious?
• Step 3 - Generating a shortlist of possible candidates
• Step 3.1 - Maternal or Paternal ancestor?
• Step 3.2 - A match on the X?
• Step 3.3 - Eliminating lines of unlikely ethnicity or nationality
• Step 3.4 - Using phasing to eliminate ancestral lines
• Step 3.5 - Other techniques to eliminate non-contenders
• Step 4 - Working with Triangulation
• Triangulation with 23andMe
• Triangulation with FTDNA
• Triangulation with Ancestry
• Triangulation in practice

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