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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: Chudleigh on Friday 30 August 13 12:27 BST (UK)

Title: Genetic Genealogy
Post by: Chudleigh on Friday 30 August 13 12:27 BST (UK)

Can anyone recommend any books or other sources of information on genetic genealogy?  I am not a complete beginner but guidance through topics like chromosome matching and triangulation would be welcomed.

Title: Re: Genetic Genealogy
Post by: DevonCruwys on Saturday 31 August 13 00:04 BST (UK)

You might like to try Kelly Wheaton's online Beginners' Guide to Genetic Genealogy:

https://sites.google.com/site/wheatonsurname/beginners-guide-to-genetic-genealogy

There are lots of pages in the ISOGG Wiki about autosomal DNA testing:

http://www.isogg.org/wiki

Here is the page on chromosome mapping:

http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Chromosome_mapping

Here is the page on triangulation:

http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Triangulation

Title: Re: Genetic Genealogy
Post by: Pd4 on Tuesday 03 September 13 16:36 BST (UK)

My dad had testing done in the US and we tested almost perfect with a Thomas Bouldin that came over on the Swan to Virginia. But nothing else links us to this well documented Thomas. Would it be useful to use this info in Rootschat to possibly find a link and another possible source of my family line in England?

Title: Re: Genetic Genealogy
Post by: supermoussi on Thursday 05 September 13 09:27 BST (UK)

Quote from: Pd4 on Tuesday 03 September 13 16:36 BST (UK)

My dad had testing done in the US and we tested almost perfect with a Thomas Bouldin that came over on the Swan to Virginia. But nothing else links us to this well documented Thomas. Would it be useful to use this info in Rootschat to possibly find a link and another possible source of my family line in England?

You can try but the odds of finding someone linked to your Bouldens on here are very long. GenesReunited would be a much better bet:-

http://www.GenesReunited.co.uk (http://www.GenesReunited.co.uk)