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The National Genealogical Society (NGS) announces the publication of "Genetic Genealogy in Practice," the first workbook on genetic genealogy. Written by Blaine T. Bettinger, PhD, JD, and Debbie Parker Wayne, CG, CGL, the book provides family historians and genealogists who have just begun to explore genetic genealogy practical, easy to understand information that they can apply to their research. As Wayne notes in her blog, Deb’s "Delvings in Genealogy," “DNA can seem complex to many of us, but this book will guide you and help build your knowledge level one step at a time.”

At their own pace, readers learn the basic concepts of genetic genealogy. They then build on that knowledge as they study the testing, analysis, and application of YDNA, X-DNA, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and autosomal DNA (atDNA) to reach and support genealogical conclusions. Each chapter includes exercises with answer keys for hands-on practice.

Blaine Bettinger is an intellectual property attorney in Syracuse, New York. The author of The Genetic Genealogist blog, he is a genealogy educator, a trustee of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and organizer of the Shared cM Project, a crowdsourced project examining the associations between genetic data and genealogical relationships.

Debbie Parker Wayne is a professional genealogist who has conducted research for individuals as well as for the PBS series “Finding Your Roots” with Henry Louis Gates Jr. and other
television shows. She is an award-winning author, the coordinator for genetic genealogy institute courses, and the DNA Project Chair for the Texas State Genealogical Society.

Length: 208 pages	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled	Page Flip: Enabled
Language: English

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ASIN : B01N43048J
Publisher : National Genealogical Society, Inc. (18 November 2016)
Language : English
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All You Need To Know About Genetic Genealogy

Reviewed in Australia on 6 December 2018

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As DNA kits become more accessible to the general public, this is a timely book written by experts on the subject of genetic genealogy. The book is concise enough for the lay person to grasp quite difficult concepts and is laid out in such a matter to make the contact digestible to novies. The key questions at the closing of each chapter, make things easier to grasp as well. Very informative and well written.

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A Classic!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2017

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The best book I've found on the subject so far. Not just a read and discard book, it has exercises to work through so perhaps it would be worth also buying a notebook for your homework :-) Don't be put off by the idea of homework, though; the book is very readable too. Once you have taken this book's contents on board, you will find that all the genetic genealogy blogs out there, including Bettinger's own 'The Genetic Genealogist', will make much more sense. I have the book both in hard copy and on Kindle, as I find myself constantly referring to it. If you plan to be DNA tested this will help you decide which tests to take; if you have already been tested it will help you interpret your results.

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Reviewed in Canada on 28 April 2017

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Good and easy to understand DNA!

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Reviewed in Canada on 15 January 2017

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A great read.

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Important Contribution with Lots of Practical Work

Reviewed in the United States on 21 August 2017

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The exercises in this book are serious work, and this book is going to take some time and focus to get through. To be clear, that is praise of the book. The authors are not just testing what you read at the end of the chapter, they are making you apply these concepts. That's important, because genealogy is not a trivial topic. The book is very well written by arguably the two biggest names in genetic genealogy education. At a conference, I was privileged to hear Debbie Parker Wayne speak - she is brilliant at making this material understandable. There was a feeling I had after DNA-testing the family and then starting to get queries full of buzzwords that I had no clue about and requests for my tree -- from maybe 5th cousins -- that I was drowning in a sea of my own ignorance and just needed to check out of DNA for about 10 years until the field got more obvious to me. (When I hear smart genealogists complain about not getting responses to DNA queries, this may be why -- it's overwhelming to me for sure.) Quality time with this book (much more to be spent) gives me hope that the topic will eventually become something I can make sense of. You can get a lot out of this book that isn't in the more anecdotal (though also interesting) treatments of genetic genealogy by other writers.

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Print edition is an excellent workbook.

Reviewed in the United States on 23 November 2017

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I first purchased the Kindle edition but found that the charts were unreadable due to low resolution. I tried various strategies to magnify the illustrations but ended up purchasing the print edition. The Kindle edition is, however, worth the $10 as an adjunct to the print edition. And

Amazon is working with the publisher to fix the Kindle edition.

I have worked through the exercises for most chapters. It took a few hours for each chapter but I don't think I could master the subject any other way. To be fair, I should admit that I already had some background in genetics, having studied it in college and having recently read Aulicino's book on genetic genealogy and DNA testing.

The exercises convince me that the level of complexity of Bettinger's explanations is necessary to really grasp the subject.

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