Abstract: Conventional genealogy relies on documents that can contain errors, may have been written to mislead, or could be partially destroyed.  Some relationships are never recorded. To go beyond the constraints of documents, genetic genealogy can be deployed. Through DNA testing paternal or maternal lineages can be disclosed.

The author combines in this book conventional and genetic genealogy to reveal the history of three Flemish families over five centuries. He describes the occupations of each of these families as well as the history of lace making, beer brewing, and immigration.

With concrete examples the author illustrates the interpretation of DNA results and the uploading of those results to public databases. The how-to-do section includes a description of various DNA test, how to select among them and how to use DNA results to document the genetic inheritances of your children.

This book also includes an introduction to the Flanders-Flemish DNA project with the first analysis of Flemish DNA records collected via the web and a summary of the deep ancestry of people with Flemish roots. These project results that have never been published before should be of great interest to Flemish people around the world.

xxiv, 372 pp., illustrated, indexed, paper, ISBN 0-9725526-7-7

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