This is a checklist I originally prepared for the Dec 2016 WCGS presentation - Enhance your Genealogy Research with DNA Testing. Time flies and so much in the genetic genealogy world has changed so quickly, but I think this stands the test of time as a good basic checklist for beginners. - CD   Enhance your Genealogy Research with DNA Testing Progress Tracker for DNA Study   Getting Started:   _ Identify your need, question, or line of descent that needs proving.   _ Identify your subject or subjects.   _ Choose the appropriate tests and company.   _ Order, complete, return, wait.   While you wait:   _ Build your tree back at least 4 generation - 5 or 6 if possible. Also, build it "wide" at the level of your grandparents and great grandparents. Include all siblings, spouses, and descendants that you can. It really helps when you are looking at lines that may descend from one of those female ...

This is a handout that I originally prepared for the Dec 2016 WCGS presentation - Enhance your Genealogy Research with DNA Testing . Time flies and so much in the genetic genealogy world has changed so quickly, I have updated some links and added a few others but this list will get you started up the learning curve that is Genetic Genealogy. - CD DNA Links and Reading List Testing site tutorials AncestryDNA Tutorials  @ Ancestry Support Family Tree DNA Learning Center 23&Me Tutorials My Heritage DNA Wikis International Society of Genetic Genealogy -  isogg.org/wiki Wikipedia -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_DNA_test Videos and Webinars  What is Inheritance from Learn.Genetics Foundations in DNA, 5 Part series by Blaine T. Bettinger  ($)   -  Legacy Family Tree Webinars Autosomal DNA: how to use it in practice, Maurice Gleeson  -  Youtube Video Using DNA to solve adopti...

Wake Treasures -  Volume 28, Number 2 – Spring 2018 is now available for viewing and download at the website. This issue incorporates material covering more than 150 years of Wake history and family narrative. Topics include: Golf Membership List - Meadowbrook Country Club, Garner, NC. 1963 1802 Tax List - continuation Eugene Narron Allen of New Light Wake County General Assembly Session Records 1798 & 1806 Thoughts about Yates Mill 1893 Register of Births, city of Raleigh Ad - Bostrom-Brady Manufacturing Raleigh Grocery Ledger (1884-1886) Playing among the Tombs (Historic Oberlin Cemetery) Members may access this and all issues of the Journal online here. If you have personal stories of people, places, and events connected to Wake County, please consider sharing them for inclusion into future editions!  Contact the journal editor. Need this content?  Become a member here.    Access to the Journal online is one of...

Here is another great learning opportunity to check out before the New Year. Edgecombe Community College, in Tarboro, offers a Weekend ContinuingEducation Series in Historic Preservation Trades. This program is run by Monika Fleming, Program Chair for the Historic Preservation curriculum at ECC. Monika presented the WCGS June program - Jewish Immigration in Eastern NC. Classes meet Saturdays for full and half day instruction. The small group setting includes discussion and one-on-one interaction. Early 2019 Topics: Intro to Genealogy Research Historic Property Education & Ancestors Local & State Records Genealogy Websites Military Records Visit the schedule page for details and registration. I have not taken one of these classes myself, but I know several people who have and they all come back raving about the experience due to the small class size.  They all say it is well worth the short trip to Tarboro on a Saturday morning!

Education is the gift that keep on giving. Take advantage of the winter listings from Senior TechEd for yourself or someone on your gift list. View the Senior TechEd Schedule here. Highlights this season include a series of lessons on working with Ancestry.com. The series is offered twice, in January and again in February. Also MS Excel 1&2 - We use spreadsheets for everything from name disambiguation and timelines to DNA sorting and match correspondence. This time will be well spent. Other topics of interest: Windows Backup File Explorer Cloud Computing Google Photos Android Smartphone Apps IOS, Ipad, and Iphone Much more... Take a look. Return to the WCGS Website