Your DNA WORKSHOP

MAKING DNA WORK FOR YOU

This month, Karen helps Family Tree reader Peter and follows the DNA trail of a family who have produced just fifteen descendants in 200 years, providing a great example of how to proceed in a case of few DNA matches.

PETER WRITES:

Last year you kindly helped me understand my ‘Y’ DNA test and featured it in Family Tree. I have now undertaken the Ancestry DNA test as they had an offer, and just received the results. I recognise some of the matches’ names though strangely not others in the 2nd-3rd cousins range. Once I have worked out how to do it, I will make contact with the more interesting ones (probably not bothering with the person with 30,000 people in their tree!)

However, my main interest is still in