For genealogy researchers, having traced ancestors on your mother’s side, you may have a solid paper trail up to a certain point.  But what do you do if the paper trail has gone cold and your family history research has come to a stop.  What do you do then?  How can you progress your genealogy beyond that?  DNA testing is one way to keep your genealogy research progressing forward on your maternal side.  DNA testing gets more popular every year, yet many still don’t understand some of the basics of how it works.  The value of any DNA test is that it can show connections where there is a missing paper trail or the trail ends.  If you have a good paper trail as far back as you desire you probably don’t need DNA testing, but once the trail ends it may help you make solid connections that would not have been noticed otherwise. At first DNA testing was used…

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