Your DNA Workshop

TAKEN A DNA TEST?

Now what?

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…

DNA is as fascinating as it is complicated. In the DNA Workshop we’ll aim to give you practical advice in understandable wording. So, whether you’ve taken a test, or are simply curious to learn more, read on! Let’s jump right in with a case study.

DNA CASE STUDY

This time the case comes from reader Pat Thorsing. Pat writes:

Dear Karen

Here is my quandary, I am trying to find my grandmother Kate Ashdown. Kate was my father’s mother, and although there does not appear to be a birth certificate for him, there was one for his sister, Hilda (born 17 July 1900), showing her mother as Kate Ashdown, a domestic servant, and the address is 2 Crown