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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Testing Your Maternal Family History Using the Most Popular Dna Test
Why You Should Use DNA Testing in Your Genealogy Research
The old time method of doing genealogy research where you use church records, land records, family bibles, census records and so on will always need to be performed in order to show family connections to your ancestors and relatives. None of that changes but now with modern DNA testing you are able to learn even more about your ancestors. With about thousands of billion cells in the human body, each cell contains the complete genetic information of each individual. The examination of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) displays unique properties of each individual. The three parts of DNA that can be examined are the Y chromosomal DNA, X chromosomal DNA, and autosomal DNA. The external part of the nucleus holds mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The autosomal DNA comes from both the mother and the father, Y chromosomes is inherited by a son from his father, and mtDNA comes from the mother only. There are advancements made in testing DNA to meet various areas…