Your DNA Workshop
Welcome to the DNA Workshop!
In every issue of Family Tree, DNA adviser Karen Evans will be helping you gen up on your genes, so you can:
• Learn practical skills with the DNA case studies
• Try it out for yourself with our task of the month
• Discover the latest tools, books, blogs and must-have kit to take your DNA learning further.
It’s time to unlock the story of your genes…
This month’s case study demonstrates the possibilities of using DNA results to discover, or prove family connections in the case of adoption, where the birth parents are now. Read on as Karen helps reader Pauline Cooper find the living descendants of her great-great-grandfather.
DNA CASE STUDY
Pauline writes: Please can you tell me the best way of finding out who my great-grandfather's father was?
He was adopted in 1883 before official processes were put in place. I have done a DNA test and have been able to group a lot of my matches but I still have lots of people who have shared matches between us who I can't group.
If I get my mum's cousin (a male) to do a DNA test will that help and if I do, do I do it through my tree or do I set him up with a new tree?
I really don't understand it enough to be able to
