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
• & 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 or two!
DNA CASE STUDY
Karen Evans writes: I’ve recently had several emails about the use of DNA tests when trying to find links back to our more distant ancestors and the best way to proceed. Here we outline their research predicaments, and then will follow with some advice and points to consider.
Can DNA help research in the 1700s?
I have researched my Borrowscale tree (and variants) back to 1700 and in fact seven generations in Liverpool, and back to Cumberland, and I have a full tree having researched it from 1985, all having been done legitimately from original sources at libraries and original parish registers, with work online also. However, now I have a brick
