Ideas, Opinions, Genealogy, and Book Reviews
The full title is “A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes “ . Adam Rutherford is hardly a household name at least here in the US. But I hope it will be a name that people looking for good science writing will remember.
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I just read an interesting post by Blaine Bettinger. If you are interested in the use of DNA evidence in genealogy, it is well worth a read.
The article is The DNA Era of Genealogy. Blaine Bettinger also has 2 books which will probably be of interest if you are looking at DNA results or considering adding DNA to you genealogy toolbox.
I have both in paperback. I find it easier to go back and re-read sections as needed as well as looking at some of the figures. I am reading both for an overview but like having the book to read in detail as needed.
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I am finding family but not in the same way. And I use some of the same techniques. But this book is about a very different quest than mine.
This was a bit of an unusual experience for me. I was browsing Amazon looking for something else. I forget what but that is unimportant. My hobby is genealogy and last Christmas I was given an autosomal DNA test kit. The results confirmed several known relationships and one suspected relationship. It also opened several unexpected avenues of research.
So I am acquainted with the uses and power of DNA for genealogy but still feel very much like a beginner in genetic genealogy.
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Genealogists trace a family and then get to a point where is seems very difficult or maybe even impossible to get beyond. These involuntary stopping points in genealogy are often called “Brick Walls”. I have several and I suppose a good many people doing genealogy have several brick walls. This is the story of a brick wall broken by DNA.
To be more specific it is the brick wall in my McKenzie line. I had been able to go back as far as my great grandfather Malcolm McKenzie and his wife Emma Cash McKenzie. Over a year and a half I wrote a very short post about them, mostly Emma Cash McKenzie.
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