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Southard, Diahan, author.

Your DNA guide the book : step-by-step plans to connect you with your family using your DNA / by Diahan Southard.

[United States] : Your DNA Guide, [2020]

238 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 23 cm.

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"Your DNA Guide--the Book is for anyone who has taken a DNA test. It helps genealogists reconstruct family trees. It helps adoptees identify biological relatives. It can help you identify a specific DNA match. In short, it helps anyone explore what their DNA -- and their DNA matches -- can tell them about their family."--Back cover.

DNA.

Genealogy -- Data processing.

Genealogy.

Ontario Genealogical Society. Wellington Branch, depositor

"www.yourdnaguide.com"

Things you need to know -- An overivew -- Family tree -- Ancestral ethnicity results -- Staying organized -- Tips -- The map -- The basic process -- Choose your research goal -- Searching for biological parents -- Searching for grandparents -- search for 2x greats -- Searching for 3x greats -- Identifying a DNA match -- Step-by-step plans -- Centimorgans: what you need to know -- Cheating tools -- Checking genetics vs. genealogy -- Chromosome browsers -- Communicating with your matches -- Confirmation bias -- Discovering close family relationships -- Drawing on your march's tree -- Endogamy -- Expanding your genetic network -- Expanding your genetic network part II -- Family groups -- Finding living people -- Finding the generation of connection -- Finding the generation of connection the hard way -- Genealogy: building your own family tree -- Genealogy: descendancy research -- Generating trees for groups of DNA matches -- Getting unstuck -- Half relationships -- Labeling matches -- mtDNA basics -- Pedigree collapse -- Removed cousins -- Research log -- Segment size -- Shared centimorgan project -- Shared matches tool -- Strategy: ask the wife -- Strategy: bottoms up -- Strategy: cousin categories -- Strategy: leftovers -- Trageting DNA testing -- Tell your story -- Unless -- YDNA basics -- Glossary.

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