or where I knew his parents to have lived, I thought it must be a mistake. It was only about four years later when I was going through town vital records in Massachusetts online that I came across the birth record for that ancestor… right in the town the scrapbook indicated. It seems...
How is probability related to genetics and heredity? My Ancestry DNA results are, 9% Irish and 15% British. No one in my family has the slightest idea of where my Irish or British DNA stems from. How far back does this ethnicity trace?
How do I read and understand my paternity test results? When will my paternity test results be ready? How will I receive my results? Why doesn’t my results report have names? More... Billing, Payment, & Other Questions Do you offer maternity DNA testing?
Ancestry has calculated my estimated relationship to my first match, Susan, as my First-cousin-1-time-removed (1C1R) or Half-first-cousin, which is genetically equivalent, on my paternal side. Ancestry has estimated that ER is also the 1C1R of Susan and they share...
Seeing the spread of various European lands found from my DNA helped me visually understand the way my ancestors migrated from the northern lands of Scandinavia down through the British Isles, while others went inland to modern day France and Germany. The test helped me see that national identity...
This combines DNA results with geographic information from hundreds of thousands of family trees. It’s a clever way to place us in more recent subgroups than what the ethnic ancestry reports reveal. It will only get better over time. My first Genetic Community is Early Settlers of the Deep ...
in voluntary DNA testing, new links in family trees are discovered. Services such as23andMe,AncestryDNA, and others offer DNA testing for a fee. But there are questions about the reliability of the results, and privacy concerns too. See my articleIs Someone Searching for Your DNA Online?
To understand the impact that the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Norris Lake Project had on this area of East Tennessee, you have to go back to the very beginning. Now, I’m not talking about the beginning of time, but more like the beginning of this area being settled. One of the...
When the DNA company receives your cat’s test sample, they will extract the DNA and run it through a computer algorithm connected to their DNA database. After the results are gathered, they will be sent back to you, which can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks, depending on which DNA co...
Colgate wants to accept thoughtful, mature students who understand what they need to be successful, as those are the kinds of students who will be able to take full advantage of all Colgate has to offer.Try to find something that you like to do, and then identify why that thing is ...