DNA Research Methods Donna Rutherford

Live Presentation for the members of the DNA Help for Genealogy (UK) group on Facebook. This takes the user through the research process of finding matches, clustering them and building a quick & dirty research tree.

[@susanschibli5184]

Brilliant so I can send people to this.

[@jennifereurell7212]

Thank you. My DNA test has just arrived at Ancestry - so I have a way to go yet. I am realising that it might be more complex than I realised, so am sure I will be watching you again when my matches turn up.

[@paulineaitman698]

thanks donna this has helped a lot a very clear and precise explanation and hopefully will help me find my missing family

[@lindab361]

Hi, you were recommended to me. Interestingly, one family I want to know more of is Rutherford. We may be related!

[@lindavies9948]

Thank-you for this information and for making it available on KZbin

[@DonnaRutherford]

It's my pleasure

[@geneticaffairs345]

Excellent stuff, very nice slides.

[@dranet47]

Thank you for doing this!

[@paulbaltzer4745]

You made me laugh when you said "you can't get your neighbors DNA from asking them for a cup of sugar". lol. Great video.

[@DonnaRutherford]

Thank you! :-)

[@marymccorkell2322]

Thanks Donna!

[@maxiculture]

Why 12.5 percent from a grandparent? Half of 50 is 25 so we expect 25 percent on average. The actual is reported to vary from 15 - 35 AFAIK.

[@DonnaRutherford]

That seems like you've picked up a mis-spoken part of my talk. Indeed on average we would expect *about* 25% of each grandparent, and 12.5% of our great grandparents, but as you say it will vary a lot.

[@broughps]

Thank-you for this. I'm just starting my DNA journey. I'm wondering how you would go about confirming an ancestor that changed their name? I think I've confirmed my 2x great-grandfather (abandoned first family and changed name with the second family), but want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.

[@lynettedonnelly4373]

Great info…thank you. Can you clarify how to USE the research/floating tree? I built one but didn’t understand how to make sense of it once it was built, so I deleted it. If I have duplicates I can merge them but how do I, later on, easily find which folks shared that merged person without having to go through all of the merged person’s descendants one by one? Hope that makes sense. I currently have a lot of Q&D trees and would love to combine them and actually be able to use that large tree effectively. Thank you!