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Genealogy by DNA: Can it Deliver?

Description of various DNA tests available for Genealogy purposes and their value and appropriate application. Links to genealogy testing resources.

GenealogyDNA.com

Free information all about DNA testing for genealogy.

Genetic Genealogy

Detailed article from MSNBC.

Genetic Genealogy: Using DNA Testing for Family Research

Speaker's notes and audience handouts summarized from a presentation by David Bradford to the Rock County Genealogical Society, March 15, 2005.

Genetics and Genealogy: Y Polymorphism and mtDNA Analyses

Discusses in detail the genealogical impacts of current genetic science.

Genlinks - Genealogy Help - DNA and Genealogy

A guide to using DNA testing for genealogy.

Historical Genetics

Links to DNA related sites.

International Society of Genetic Genealogy

The world's first society founded to promote and educate about genetic genealogy. Membership is FREE!.

Kerchner's DNA Testing & Genetic Genealogy Information & Resources Page

List of information sources and for learning how to use the new tools of DNA testing and Genetic Genealogy to aide traditional genealogical research.

Mitochondria DNA (mtDNA) Test Results Log Book

Molecular Genealogy - Is DNA the Answer to Lost Family Records?

From the About.com genealogy section.

My Family Health Portrait - A Tool from the Surgeon General

OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

Searchable database of genetic diseases.

On-Line Journal of Genetics and Genealogy

The On-line Journal of Genetics and Genealogy will highlight the connections between the science of Y and X chromosome, mitochondrial, and autosomal DNA analysis and genealogy. Reference will be made to scientific and genealogy articles which complement each other and advance the study of recent family history and ancient human migrations.

One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

openSNP

openSNP allows customers of direct-to-customer genetic tests to publish their test results, find others with similar genetic variations, learn more about their results, find the latest primary literature on their variations and help scientists to find new associations.

Origins DNA - Where Did You Come From?

DNA Manager, Tribe Mapper, Cousin Finder

Putting the Gene back in Genealogy

Online article from Popular Science magazine.

Recent Common Ancestors of All Present-Day Indivdiuals

Statisitcal analysis to determine the number of generations back to a most recent common ancestor.

Sense About Genetic Ancestry Testing - Resources - Sense About Science

From Sense About Science - Many companies now offer to tell you about your ancestors from a DNA test. Adverts for these tests can give the impression that your results are unique and that the tests will tell you about your specific personal history, but the very same history that you receive could equally be given to thousands of other people. Conversely, the results from your DNA tests could be matched with all sorts of different stories to the one you are given: you cannot look at DNA and read it like a book or a map of a journey. This guide will help explain why, and what it is exactly that genetic ancestry companies are offering.