Friday, September 10, 2010

DNA gets us past missing links

Today, some families use simple, inexpensive DNA testing to find a link to an old family line. This is helpful when you run into a brick wall and can't make a link back to a well documented old line.

If for example a few of the males in our Bowen family would be willing to submit a swabbing from inside their cheek, we could probably establish from what old line we come. Then we could focus on only that line in a search for the missing link.

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