DNA Tools/ Objectives and Findings in our Study
DNA Tools and the Haplotree: The two kinds of DNA test that are used for our study is the male only Y-DNA test and the Autosomal DNA test. The Autosomal test can be found on sites like ancestry, My Heritage, 23 and Me , and several others. It is recommended you test with Ancestry, because they have the largest database, and you can transfer your DNA file from ancestry to several other testing sites for free if you wish to. This will generate many more cousins trees to research. The Autosomal test is wonderful for family matching within 200 years, but is often times not very useful outside that time period. The male only Y-DNA test looks only at the male inherited Y-Chromosome. The Y is passed from father to son relatively unchanged from generation to generation. Going back all the way to "Genetic Adam", who lived a few hundred thousand years ago in central Africa. Any man in the world who takes a Y-DNA test can see how they connect to any other man in time. There...