| Dear Fellow Genealogist,
Genetic genealogy can be incredibly rewarding and challenging – at the exact same time. Adding DNA to your research mix can help you break through brick walls that could never be solved with traditional paper genealogy on its own. This may be why you took a DNA test in the first place: to help you solve a mystery.
On the other hand, you can easily become overwhelmed by trying to figure out relationships based on centimorgans, or having too many matches, or struggling to find an MRCA for you and a match. The challenges of genetic genealogy may be why you have started using it or have put your DNA research aside.
In today’s newsletter, we share a collection of articles that provide instruction on three key genetic genealogy strategies to help you get started (or back on the right path).
First, Diahan Southard answers a reader’s question about creating a DNA testing strategy. Why do you need a strategy? Because a well thought out plan can help you “create” the right type of matches to solve the problem you are using DNA to solve. Next, is a step-by-step guide to using shared matches at Ancestry. A second step-by-step guide shows how to make a mirror tree, a useful technique if you are looking for your birth family.
Counting centimorgans,
— Amanda, eLearning Producer of Family Tree University
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