First we talked about the fact that Family Tree Maker 2024 is now available. See what’s new here: https://www.mackiev.com/ftm/ftm2024_whats_new.html
Tracing our female ancestors can be difficult. We explored how mitochondrial DNA, X-DNA, and autosomal DNA can help.
Here are some helpful links, some of which we discussed.
https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/family-history/find-out-more-about-women-in-family-tree
Learn about the four types of DNA used for genealogy in these short videos here: https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/molgen/
Autosomal DNA:
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2009/11/10/qa-everyone-has-two-family-trees-a-genealogical-tree-and-a-genetic-tree/
X-DNA:
Learning about X-DNA and some inheritance charts: https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2008/12/21/unlocking-the-genealogical-secrets-of-the-x-chromosome/
Debbie Parker Wayne’s fillable X-DNA inheritance charts: http://debsdelvings.blogspot.com/2013/10/x-dna-inheritance-charts.html
See https://web.archive.org/web/20230312132119/http://debbiewayne.com/pubs.php#quickref if the above gives issues
Using DNA Painter’s trees:
https://blog.dnapainter.com/blog/eight-ways-you-can-use-ancestral-trees-at-dna-painter/
Mitochondrial DNA:
The Legal Genealogist’s “Finding Margaret’s Mother” series:
https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2019/04/28/keeping-that-dna-resolution/
https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2019/05/18/finding-margarets-mother-part-2/
https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2019/05/25/finding-margarets-mother-part-3/
https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2019/06/29/finding-margarets-mother-part-4/
https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2019/08/10/finding-margarets-mother-part-5-2/
https://www.legalgenealogist.com/2019/11/16/finding-margarets-mother-part-6/
Read about the Million Mito Project here: https://blog.familytreedna.com/join-the-million-mito-project/
And its updates here:
https://blog.familytreedna.com/updated-mtdna-tree-35000-new-branches/
https://blog.familytreedna.com/mtdna-discover-haplogroup-reports/
You can also upload your mtDNA to http://www.mitoydna.org
Blaine Bettinger’s blog post about not sharing mtDNA with his own mother: https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2018/04/21/heteroplasmies-polycytosine-stretches-mtdna-case-study/
Blog post from FTDNA: “Genealogy Secret Weapon: How Using mtDNA Can Solve Family Mysteries” – https://blog.familytreedna.com/mtdna/
Explore information from FTDNA:
https://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004592756-mtDNA-Matches-Introduction
https://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004592776-mtDNA-Matches-Guide
https://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407090183439-mtDNA-Mutations-Guide-
https://help.familytreedna.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407090309263-Understanding-mtDNA-Mutations