5. X DNA

I am understanding DNA better after a year.  Here are two resources that I am excited about.

•      One neat resource by Ann Turner is her text list of numbers that show which ancestors a person can have that might have x dna   Ahentafel X list .  This helps prove why my Pocahontas DNA wouldn't show up... I need more uncles and great uncles to  share dna for my mother's paternal lines.

•      Another neat software program is Charting Companion  http://progenygenealogy.com/Products/Family-Tree-Charts    I love the x dna fan chart program that prints out on 8' x11" paper!  I also have saved the pdf and emailed it to cousins to try to get them to "SPIT" dna for me.     

• I am amazed at how my sister, brother, mom and dad  have different dna  results.  Get everyone tested especially if you only have men... get a female  and visa versa!

• I am not happy with Ancestry.com's changes with their "security" due to lawsuits.  I am an administrator of several family members.  I am the only one who is doing the genealogy and the information matters to me more than to others.  I worry that their new changes may not help people who are technological or genealogically challenged people share their info to their family administrator.

4. Absolute beginner guide by Jared Smith

http://smithplanet.com/stuff/gedmatch.htm

I have been contacting new cousins and hope you are finding this blog helpful.  

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