tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post3498345496230265150..comments2024-03-13T21:06:16.936-04:00Comments on Olive Tree Genealogy Blog: Understanding Your DNA Results: Comparison ChartsOlive Tree Genealogyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-29084337975035835732013-11-14T07:46:46.949-05:002013-11-14T07:46:46.949-05:00Hi Amanda - You may publish this post in your news...Hi Amanda - You may publish this post in your newsletter with the following credit between the lines -----<br /><br />START credit here ----<br /><br />by Lorine McGinnis Schulze<br />Olive Tree Genealogy<br />http://OliveTreeGenealogy.com<br /><br />Previously published at http://olivetreegenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/10/understanding-your-dna-results.html<br /><br />------END credit here<br /><brOlive Tree Genealogyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02381110998759242462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-85485276066619278782013-11-13T20:49:48.979-05:002013-11-13T20:49:48.979-05:00Ms. McGinnis,
I am the editor of the Marion Count...Ms. McGinnis,<br /><br />I am the editor of the Marion County (FL) Genealogy Society Newsletter "Rootdigger". I would like reprint this blog post in our newsletter. Please let me know I can do this and how you would like it credited. Thank you.<br /><br />Amanda TriepkeAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04479446360766550632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-44206127892679318922013-10-13T23:16:56.936-04:002013-10-13T23:16:56.936-04:00I would suggest "DNA and Social Networking: A...I would suggest "DNA and Social Networking: A Guide to Genealogy in the Twenty-First Century" by Debbie Kennett and Richard Hill's book "Finding Family with DNA Testing".<br /><br />I tend to ignore the ethnic predictions since the companies seem to update them so often and focus on matching chromosome strings tied to Most Recent Common Ancestors (MRCA) or a surname from Mountain Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08245031277418165029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-51307820908176577342013-10-13T17:43:32.864-04:002013-10-13T17:43:32.864-04:00I am reading a new book called: The Juggler's ...I am reading a new book called: The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us<br />Abraham, Carolyn<br />which is about a genealogy search using DNA and covers a little bit of the original history of commercial genealogy DNA.The book is were reading.Caverlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02115466313119494258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-25758801899279548292013-10-11T12:01:41.689-04:002013-10-11T12:01:41.689-04:00Lorine,
I just received my Family Finder DNA resu...Lorine,<br /><br />I just received my Family Finder DNA results. This whole DNA for genealogy thing is just so interesting.<br /><br />I want to let you know that your blog post is listed in today's Fab Finds post at http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2013/10/follow-friday-fab-finds-for-october-11.html<br /><br />Have a wonderful weekend!Jana Iverson Lasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07687969613629975601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-16210830306603408522013-10-11T09:08:25.756-04:002013-10-11T09:08:25.756-04:00Hi, nice post. One correction- mtDNA is not X chro...Hi, nice post. One correction- mtDNA is not X chromosome. It is mitochondrial DNA, which has nothing to do with nuclear chromosomes like the autosomal, X, or Y ones tested by these companies. Mitochondria are organelles located outside the nucleus and have their own chromosome, so to speak, coding for 37 genes important to the function of mitochondria in the cell, which has to do with convertingAstridhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00434175537509093484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641680.post-85192582280660238202013-10-10T01:18:09.743-04:002013-10-10T01:18:09.743-04:00I don't think I can explain your results bette...I don't think I can explain your results better than you have but I can offer a couple of book suggestions for reading about DNA. The first is The Juggler's Children by Carolyn Abraham which is a personal story about the author's search to find her family history with the help of DNA. The second is a more general overview of DNa itself, a very fascinating and well written book called CallieKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04991717349717389292noreply@blogger.com