An article in the United Arab Emirate newspaper The National (wikipedia) does a terrific job of highlighting recent research from Family Tree DNA. The story - “DNA could illuminate Islam’s lineage” – discusses research that has attempted to elucidate the Y-DNA signature of Mohammed. Although Mohammed did not have a son, he had [...]
This has been a great week for The Genetic Genealogist, and I just wanted to send out my gratitude.
First, TGG was included by Chris Dunham of The Genealogue in his list “10 Genealogy Blogs Worth Reading” at Blogs.com! I’m truly honored to be listed among the other great bloggers in the article. (Like Chris, [...]
In my genealogical research, I have sometimes found myself missing the trees by focusing on the forest. I think it happens to many genealogists – we get caught up in the research, the dates, the places, and we forget that there was so much more to people than their vital statistics.
This can happen to [...]
I’ve been working on a presentation regarding the future of genetic genealogy, and one aspect of that future is the ability to trace DNA (SNPs, mutations, haplogroups, etc…) through recent history as the result of combining extensive genomic sequencing with massive family tree information. Although the ability to do this will have many [...]
As announced by Mark Tucker at ThinkGenealogy and Shelly Talalay Dardashti at Tracing the Tribe, CEO of FamilyLink.com Paul Allen tweeted the following yesterday:
“Starting job description for ‘chief genealogy officer’ who will help manage GenSeek–directory of all the world’s genealogy sources.”
You can learn more about GenSeek – a comprehensive genealogy website including the Family [...]
I don’t often post pure genealogy on this blog, but I thought I would take a break from genetic genealogy and join in on the Genea-Bloggers Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt, which was: “Upload your favorite picture and talk about it on your blog. Answer the who/what/when/where/why of the subject matter and explain why it [...]
I recently wrote about using genetic genealogy to potentially identify a male’s unknown surname. Although I had in mind using DNA to find an adopted male’s biological surname, the method has numerous other applications. For instance, it can be used in an attempt to identify the surname of a male who has forgotten [...]
Yesterday, RootsTelevision.com celebrated its two-year birthday. RootsTelevision was created by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak and Marcy Brown in 2006, and currently contains programs in 25 different channels! You can read more about the site and about its creation at Megan’s Roots World.
You might remember that a few weeks ago I was interviewed by Dick Eastman [...]
This Friday, September 5th, I’ll be attending the FGS meeting in Philadelphia. I’m excited because this is my first big genealogy meeting (after 20 years of genealogy!), and because I get to sit and watch some great presenters discuss genetic genealogy. The program is here.
I hope to meet some other genealogy bloggers, if any [...]
I’ve decided to join the 2008 Genea-Blogger Group Games (see here for more info). I’m a little late, but the organizers have decided to allow entrants until tonight at 9:00pm PDT. The Opening Ceremonies were held on Friday. I’m hoping to put a genetic genealogy twist on my entries, if possible, to highlight how [...]
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