I recently served as a faculty expert an article that the California State University system wrote about those popular direct-to-consumer DNA tests for family history.
April 2017 Cal State Fullerton Program: Using DNA to Discover Your Ancestry
What can DNA testing tell you about your ethnic origins? How can it be used to piece together your family history? Are those TV commercials all hype? How have anthropologists and historians used this type of DNA testing to solve historical mysteries? Can these tests reveal anything about your health?
Just Launched My Research Guide for Genetic Genealogy
Yesterday I launched my newest research guide, on using DNA for genealogical research — a focus of much of my own research time and dime this year. The research guide is by no means complete. I am still scrambling to add more material, and will continue to regularly update it. It is meant to be comprehensive, but not exhaustive. Includes a special getting started section for beginners.