Results of My Y Chromosome Test

| October 7, 2008

See September 8 blog for an introduction to this topic.            As I talked about before,  the Y chromosome is only passed down from father to son, and can be used to find out information about a male’s paternal ancestry.  This chromosome contains about 58 million base pairs containing 86 genes or 27 depending on whom you [...]

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Checking Out My mDNA and Y Chromosome

| September 8, 2008

         For many years I have been interested in the history of my family.  The advent of computers has sped up this process and recently a new tool has been added to the process–DNA analysis.              Recently when I was in Texas, I noticed that the genealogy web site, Ancestry.com, had a half price sale [...]

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