DNA testing is the new "thing" in genealogy. 


I wrote this page about 2009
End of 2019 I did Ancestry autosomal DNA
Perhaps look ay my updated page on one of ancestors re what is possible with DNA

Stevens - married to KING in EAGLE line what Henry Stevens breeches maker got up to is good story about matters you might not want to find out about your ancestors. But DNA did enable me to find out his home town.

And if you are on online family tree see home page check the two William EAGLE and their families. Their descendants are my largest amount of DNA matches.

But as always I do advise that DNA is risky you may find out something you did not expect or want to know.

 


DNA tags in Suffix field
fgf father line on fathers lines I need to expand on that

 

DNA testing strategy for Australians

MODULE 2: Grouping your AncestryDNA matches - Dotting by generations and advanced dotting!

Genemonkey explains....: About this blog


My original 2009 page

I thought I would provide some information. I am not suggesting that you undertake a DNA analysis  Far from it.  I have tested my yDNA at 37 markers and results are inconclusive as matches I know about when you get to 37 are not exact and are all off by some genetic distance which means our common ancestor is several generations ago - my calculation was perhaps 600 years. These are people of other surnames. As far as I can tell LANKSHEAR was a surname that took a while to get to that spelling and was a label placed on people from Lancashire in England and they could have had another surname before that. So DNA and surname does not come into it. Any LANKSHEAR's reading this who are interested in DNA please contact me. I now have more cousins but I don't think we will ever establish an actual tree linkage.

 It may tell you all manner of things about your genetic makeup but it may not help to break down brickwalls and of course the results are a new science that you have to get your head around....... Great for anthropology. 
Well I am Haplogroup R1b1b2
Place of highest frequency= Western Europe
Most prevalent ancient ethnic group = Italo-Celto-Anatolian
That is from Eupedia : Geographic spread and ethnic origins of European haplogroups

 

What I gather from all the people suggesting you take part in a DNA study of a surname is that these studies are for males of that surname. I suppose it then proves that you are a male of the same line as the other males who took part in the testing. If there is a discrepancy then I am not sure about who it proves what. Except see Owsley below. But then perhaps I have not got my head around the stuff either. 

This appears to a good article on what it is all about

http://www.technologyreview.com/BioTech/wtr_16421,312,p1.html

Detailed stuff about African American research http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/about.html

These people offer a free service http://www.ysearch.org/ and http://smgf.org/

http://www.jogg.info/ Journal of Genetic Genealogy

http://www.worldfamilies.net/ World Families Network

DNA research possible for LANKSHEAR 
Andrew Lancaster has asked any of us who are interested to take part in a DNA study. 
see LANCASTER surname Genealogy however my results show I do not have ank known LANCASTER as an ancestor which is what I expected. If any LANKSHEAR males want to test then do contact me

Some of the research coming out of DNA is interesting 

Example Myths of British Ancestry by Stephen Oppenheimer

see also Numbers in Genealogy - how many ancestors do you have

and THE OWSLEY SURNAME DNA PROJECT has an example of something that folk may not want to know - one ancestor was not a biological son of his supposed father

And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age