Showing posts with label DNA for genealogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNA for genealogy. Show all posts

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Combining document genealogy with genetic genealogy: "The man who wasn't John CharlesBrown "

One of the goals of this site is to show how to use genetic genealogy to assist with document genealogy. Randy Majors has a recent post that does just that. Read it on his website: The man who wasn't John Charles Brown

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Three recent articles using DNA for genealogy

The following articles use DNA testing in determining the genealogical connections in the families studied:

  • Daniela Moneta "Virginia Pughs and North Carolina Wests: A Genetic Link from Slavery in Kentucky," National Genealogical Society Quarterly vol.97, pp.179-194 (September 2009).
  • Alvy Ray Smith, "The Probable Genetic Signature of Thomas1 Riggs: Immigrant to Gloucester, Massachusetts by 1658," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol.164, pp.85-89(April 2010).
  • Alvy Ray Smith, "The Probable Genetic Signature of Edward1 Riggs: Immigrant to Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1633," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol.164, pp.95-103(April 2010).

In his two articles, Dr Smith introduces his own method of showing genetic ancestry which does not follow any of the usual methods. While some like his method, I find it less informative that the standard marker site, marker value pairs used by the genetic genealogy community.