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How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results For Family History & Ancestry: Scientists Speak Out on Genealogy Joining Genetics Paperback – December 19, 2002

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Scientists in the news speak out from opposite sides of the fence on the question of DNA testing for researching family history and ancestry. How do you interpret your own DNA test results? How do you work with or research oral history?What's the cultural component behind a trait as biological as your genes? If you're a beginning family historian, an oral history researcher, or a person with no science background fascinated with ancestry, here's how to understand and use the results of DNA tests. Scientists, media, historians, and business owners share different opinions on whether DNA testing is a useful tool in the hands of family historians.Steve Olson, author of the book, Mapping Human History in a telephone interview with me answered my question, "What do you say about using DNA as a tool for genealogy-to extend family history research?"Does Steve Olson think DNA testing as a tool is useful to genealogists? What does Bryan Sykes, author of the best-selling, The Seven Daughters of Eve have to say? Sykes's book has a very different opinion about DNA testing and genealogy/family history research. The two have opposite views. Numerous scientists comment.Sykes is associated with Oxford Ancestors, the world's first company to harness the power and precision of modern DNA-based genetics for use in genealogy. The motto on the Oxford Ancestors Web site reads: "Putting the genes in genealogy." Use these resources and easy to understand explanations for family history research.

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266 pages
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December 19, 2002
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6 x 0.67 x 9 inches
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0595263348
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978-0595263349
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About the Author

Anne Hart writes books that make complex topics easy to understand for those with no science background. She holds a graduate degree and has written up to three books a year since 1963, both novels and nonfiction. She specializes in writing books about DNA, genetics, molecular anthropology, genealogy, history, and ethnology.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ iUniverse (December 19, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 266 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0595263348
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0595263349
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.67 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,054,944 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #634 in Organic Chemistry (Books)
- #1,121 in Genetics (Books)
- #1,409 in Genealogy (Books)

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Linda D. Moore

Not what I had expected.

Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2016

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I am still reading it. There are some good points but it is awfully hard to figure out how to do this as a lay person. They list many sites but none have worked out thus far. I'm about half way through it. I am a bit disappointed since most of the sites just recommend others. When you open them up it seems to be a dead end.

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Kathy Mears

Don't buy this book.

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2015

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This book is a waste of time and money, the author's self-important personality shines through the text, do we really need to know she once was a member of a high IQ society? What does that tidbit, or a dozen more like it have anything to do with interpreting DNA results. Sentences and paragraphs are poorly constructed despite her graduate degree in English. You will learn almost nothing about interpreting your test results from this book.

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Bosun Bob

Outstanding Read

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2018

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Excellent book, a must read in order to make sense of things.

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MJ S

Misleading title

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2016

The title of this book is NOT what is inside of it. The only thing in it that helped me was a description of what of the genetic names mean. Maybe I was expecting t much but I was not expecting it answer ALL my questions or give me very intricate detail on how to read the test results but at least tell me what I should be looking for like how to read another persons results with mine to see where and or how they match. Some sort of visual diagram on what markers are and what SNP's, etc. Matter of fact, on page 39 she gives a website and says "Here is an excellent book that I highly recommend explains and explores in layman's language how family historians-genealogist can use DNA research and test results for family history research" Well, I though that's what this book was about! She also writes ALOT about doing a paper trail genealogy, how to interview older family members, what questions to ask, etc. How to use DNA testing for medical research, and toward the back of the book, she rewrites, word for word what she already said in the beginning of the book. Very disappointed. A huge waste of money. The only small thing that was good is that she talked some about Haplotype.

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Bryan D. Long

Proof Anyone can publish a book!

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2013

I got about a quarter way through the book, and I thought someone had played a prank on me because I was reading about crafts, interviewing elderly ppl, while trying to edit out all the grammer mistakes in my head. I did finish it, but it was one tough read! Did the author not have an editor? Or did she even proof read her work? Why didn't I learn how to interpret my test results for family history & ancestry like the book says in the TITLE? It feels like the author had written a book about making a family tree, but wanted it to stand out from all the other books on that subject, so she added "DNA", and "genetics" to the title. It reads like the Author cut and pasted all that genetic stuff into the book at random! It has no context! When it does get scientific, you are given very general info that you could've found online. As a matter of fact I did find alot of the info online, almost word-for-word! I could go on about how bad this book is, but I'll let the other ppl who review this book fill in the details, because now I have to look for a REAL book about interpreting my genetic family tree!

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Jay

This book is missing significant information.

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2003

Hart's book on "How to Interpret your DNA Tests Results..." is a misnomer. The book does not provide the reader with any information on the topics of "short tandem repeats" (STR's) or "most recent common ancestor" (MRCA), or any significant information on mutations rates. I have not found anyplace in her book that she gives any significant information about DYS markers, or the significance thereof, on the Y chromosome. The book contains very little information on how to interpret your mitochondrial DNA results. Further, the book contains numerous sections that do not relate to interpretation of your DNA results, such as the "Human Genome Project", "How to Interview Older Adults", "Have a Personal or Family History of Cancer", and 50 pages of a dictionary of genetic terms taken from a web site. Yet the book's index is only 5 pages in length, insufficient to find significant information that may be available. Further, the book contains some serious errors, such as "HLA genes are white blood cells".

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Jay

This book is missing significant information.

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2003

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