Bibliograph

Your DNA guide, the book, step-by-step plans to connect you with your family using your DNA, by Diahan Southard

Type

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Your DNA guide, the book, step-by-step plans to connect you with your family using your DNA, by Diahan Southard

Language

eng

Illustrations

genealogical tablesillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Your DNA guide, the book

Oclc number

1145988050

Responsibility statement

by Diahan Southard

Sub title

step-by-step plans to connect you with your family using your DNA

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adult

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Step-by-step plans to connect you with your family using your DNA

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