Your DNA work shop
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…
NA 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 Peter Cope. Peter writes:
Dear Karen
I’ve found your recent articles on DNA very interesting. Would it be worthwhile me undertaking an Ancestry DNA test?
‘Should I take an Ancestry DNA test?’ Karen’s reply:
The simple is yes, definitely!
What does Peter know?
Peter has already taken a Y-DNA test with FamilytreeDNA with mixed results (see FT August 2019). Despite searching for 20 years he has been unable to take his paternal male line back further than his 2x greatgrandfather Thomas Cope who died in Stratford, West Ham, in March 1844 aged 30.
In the 1841 Census his age was shown as 25 so Thomas was probably born about 1813. Unfortunately, all Peter knew,
