Why do you think we need it?

Why do you think we need it?

Alastair Greenshields (Principal) gives expert video advice on: What is gentic genealogy?; How does DNA help when trying to trace your family history?; Who invented it? and more...

I think we need DNA in genealogy, because genealogy is such a big hobby now, for many people, and the records weren't always as accurate as they could be. Plus, there have been adoptions or illegitimate events, essentially what we call non-paternity events, which always skews the records. You know, they're never quite as accurate as you would like them. Often, people have been tracing their genealogy and they go down the wrong track for many years. And genealogy was and has it's foibles, and DNA can come in to try and work out exactly what went wrong or workout which person is related to who. So as genealogy grows the hobby kind of takes off. DNA or genetic genealogy can help to firm up those lineages and to verify those paper records or, in fact, to say they weren't wrong or they weren't right in the first place. It provides a very good link.