Submission of John de Balliol to Edward I I’ve been bugging my brother-in-law for details of his genealogy for years now. He knows a few bits and pieces, but isn’t really interested in the subject other than to remind me that he belongs to the same Middleton family as the signer of the Declaration of Independence. It’d be nice to have some details there. Lately, my sister has...
I missed Lesley Stahl’s piece “On The Hopes And Limitations Of Genetic Genealogy” on 60 Minutes yesterday. Fortunately, CBS put it online: Rebuilding The Family Tree.
When you order a DNA test, even if you don’t really think about it, you expect that the results will stay the same over time. Sure, geneticists might re-classify or re-label the result, but the actual physical result will be the same. Not so, it seems. I had an mtDNA test at Oxford Ancestors in 1998. (Yes, 1998.) Back then, it wasn’t clear that genealogists would embrace DNA testing...
I received this replacement certificate from Oxford Ancestors in October 2007. It shows my place in the Velda clan (Haplogroup V2), as well as the relative size and relationship of the seven European clans. Interpreting your DNA sequence Your certificate shows a read-out of your DNA sequence (in purple) and, above it, a chart of human evolution with your place in the scheme marked by a star. What...