GET MORE from Ancestry DNA & FamilyTree DNA - TOOLS to use for Solving Genetic Genealogy Problems 🧬

Learn how to get more out of your DNA results in this presentation for the Craven County Genealogical Society. We discuss all of these topics:
Introduction • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Testing Options: Which companies are most popular • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Which tests are available and who can or should take them
Y-DNA • GET MORE from Ancestry...
mtDNA • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Autosomal DNA • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Why ethnicity results can be misleading • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Introduction to Useful Tools for Autosomal DNA results
Gedmatch • GET MORE from Ancestry...
DNAPainter • GET MORE from Ancestry...
How to use DNA Painter's Chromosome Map tool • GET MORE from Ancestry...
How to download data from Ancestry DNA to use on Gedmatch • GET MORE from Ancestry...
How to use One to One Autosomal DNA Comparison tool on Gedmatch to get shared segment information for DNA Painter • GET MORE from Ancestry...
How Y-DNA can be more useful than Autosomal DNA when it comes to very distant matches • GET MORE from Ancestry...
How to use the Shared cM tool at Gedmatch to figure out most likely relationship based on amount of shared DNA • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Dangers and Advantages of AncestryDNA Thrulines • GET MORE from Ancestry...
One way to determine if an AncestryDNA Thruline match is valid • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Why do AncestryDNA Thruline matches sometimes disappear as children from suggested or known ancestors? • GET MORE from Ancestry...
How you can use a SPECULATIVE graphic to warn others that a connection you've made in your Ancestry tree may not be correct • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Using color coding on AncestryDNA matches • GET MORE from Ancestry...
More about using SPECULATIVE graphic and comments on your Ancestry tree to let people know that someone you put in your tree may not be the right ancestor • GET MORE from Ancestry...
BONUS CONTENT: How to find unindexed content on FamilySearch • GET MORE from Ancestry...
Download SPECULATIVE ANCESTOR graphics here: drive.google.c...
Quick Links to Eastern North Carolina county records on FamilySearch
www.eastcaroli...
‪@DNAFamilyTrees‬ video about how to use WATO (What are the Odds?) tool at DNAPainter • WATO - Use DNA Matches...
‪@BlaineBettinger‬ video about how to use DNAPainter's Chromosome Map tool • DNAPainter
‪@FamilyHistoryFanatics‬ is another fantastic channel with TONS of great resources on using DNA to solve genealogical mysteries. You can go much deeper than anything that is presented here.

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Thanks for the shout out.

[@LanceHall]

Thru-lines should generally not be used to replace actual research. The proper value of Thru-lines is testing hypothetical DNA connections. You can easily spot illegitimacies.

[@eastcarolinaroots]

Yep, I talk about ways to spot bad information in Thru-lines in this video. :)

[@FamilyHistoryFanatics]

Lance is spot on.

[@LanceHall]

If you never tested your parent before they passed and there's no other older relatives hen you need to test at least 2 of your own siblings to hopefully catch most of your parent's DNA.

[@eastcarolinaroots]

This is great advice for people who have two full siblings and whose parents are both deceased. People shouldn't despair, though, and just think DNA testing won't work for them just because they don't have living parents or two full siblings, though. There is still a ton of valuable insight to be found in even a DNA test for an individual person. Aunts and uncles or great aunts and uncles can also be a phenomenal resource. I'm fortunate enough to have both of my maternal grandparents tested, and on my dad's side of the family, a great aunt. I also have one of my maternal great-grandmother's sisters who has tested. Lots of creative ways to get the DNA info we need!