| Description |
238 pages : illustrations, genealogical charts ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
"www.yourdnaguide.com" |
| Contents |
Things you need to know -- An overview -- Family tree -- Ancestral ethnicity results -- Staying organized -- Tips -- The map -- The basic process -- Choose your research goal -- Searching for biological parents -- Searching for grandparents -- search for 2x greats -- Searching for 3x greats -- Identifying a DNA match -- Step-by-step plans -- Centimorgans: what you need to know -- Cheating tools -- Checking genetics vs. genealogy -- Chromosome browsers -- Communicating with your matches -- Confirmation bias -- Discovering close family relationships -- Drawing on your match's tree -- Endogamy -- Expanding your genetic network -- Expanding your genetic network part II -- Family groups -- Finding living people -- Finding the generation of connection -- Finding the generation of connection the hard way -- Genealogy: building your own family tree -- Genealogy: descendancy research -- Generating trees for groups of DNA matches -- Getting unstuck -- Half relationships -- Labeling matches -- mtDNA basics -- Pedigree collapse -- Removed cousins -- Research log -- Segment size -- Shared centimorgan project -- Shared matches tool -- Strategy: ask the wife -- Strategy: bottoms up -- Strategy: cousin categories -- Strategy: leftovers -- Targeting DNA testing -- Tell your story -- Unless -- YDNA basics -- Glossary. |
| Summary |
"Your DNA Guide--the Book is for anyone who has taken a DNA test. 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 family."--Back cover. |
| Subject |
DNA.
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Genetic genealogy.
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Genealogy -- Data processing.
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Genealogy.
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| Genre |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| ISBN |
9781734613902 (paperback) |
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1734613904 (paperback) |
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