#1: DNA Testing Can’t Take the Place of Research While a genealogy DNA test can offer clues to a person’s origins and can determine if two people may be related, it will not provide you with a complete family tree. DNA testing is a supplement to genealogy research and is most often used to confirm the information that has been compiled through...

The first Native American to arrive in Europe was alleged to be brought by the Vikings over 1,000 years ago to Iceland. This person was thought to be a woman. This finding supported the theory that Vikings reached the American continent several centuries before Columbus traveled to the “New World”. How could this be possible? According...

If you’re not familiar with the term Melungeon, then you’re not unlike many others, even some genealogists aren’t aware of the term and haven’t a clue what it means, or who it applies to. However if your family comes from the Cumberland Gap area, or Cumberland Plateau, and called Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, or West Virgi...

How are the results delivered? What do I do now? Will the result be exactly the same for each member of my family? Will the test determine my geographic origin? What will a paternal deep ancestral ethnic origin reveal? Can you start with female members of my family? ...

How do I give DNA? Is giving DNA painful? How much does it cost? Where can I get a test done? Who carries out the test? ...

What is genetic genealogy? How does DNA help when trying to trace your family history? Who invented it? Why do you think we need it? What are its specific uses? What is the most common use of genetic Genealogy? Is there a governing body of genetic Genealogy? What does the future hold for genetic Genealogy? ...

What is DNA? Why do you start with the Y chromosome? Is the Y chromosome found in both sexes? What is the Maternal line? What is the Paternal Line? ...

Can I use it to test my ethnicity? Can I use it to determine ancestral pedigree? ...

How can the test tell where I’m from? Would this suggest I am related to them? How do I decipher the information? Should my immediate family have the same test? ...

Many families have rumors of it, have heard it said that their mother or their fathers mother was “full blood” native American of one variety or another. How do you find out whats real and whats fiction? Nearly all Native Americans belong to one of five mitochondrial DNA haplogroups: A, B, C, D or X and all of these are widely distribu...