You may have been doing genealogy for a long time, and you have a nice full family tree.
And you don't really have any questions. And so, why would you want to take a DNA test. Well, let
me give you one good reason today in this video. Howdy, welcome to Family History Fanatics, where
we love helping you climb your family tree and have fun along the way. DNA testing can help break
down brick walls because it is a record, unlike any other record. It is a record of our ancestors.
Now, it doesn't have names and dates and places attached to it because we need other people to
test in order to attach those names and dates and places. But it is a very powerful record because
that DNA can't be forged. It can't be a falsified. It is what we got from our biological mother and
our biological father. Now, that may conflict with some of the records that we have. But if we take
this DNA and understand how it's used, we can use it with these other records in order to help solve
some genealogy questions. However, there's some people who maybe their families have been involved
in genealogy for a long time. And they have a family tree that's built out five, six, seven,
eight, nine, or ten generations. It's completely full, and are wondering, "Well if I've already
got all of this data from these records, what is DNA going to do for me that these other records
can't?" It's not really going to do something for you. Except at the end, I'll give you a bonus. But
what it will do, is it will help to tie that DNA, your DNA, to all of those people in the
tree. And you'd be thinking, "Well, again, how is that useful for you?" It's not! But
for other people, it is because you share DNA with thousands upon thousands of other people.
Some of them don't have as extensive a family tree. Some of them have missing branches.
Some of them may be adopted, and they don't even have a start of their family tree. By you testing
and you tying that DNA to all those people. What you have done is you've really created an anchor
point that somebody else who matches you now knows. "Okay, whatever my tree looks like.
It has to intersect this other tree." there has to be an overlap somewhere.
And that is where we both got that little segment of DNA. And that's actually really,
really powerful. We need people who have these great big, full family trees to DNA test. Because
they provide these anchors of where these DNA comes from. Now, when you think about an adoptee,
who doesn't know who their biological mother or father is, but they want to research that. They
can't start with a bunch of records and start, you know, filling in places. They have to start
with really, you know, what they have, which is just DNA. So, with that DNA, if they know that,
"Hey, this tree over here I'm related to. I don't know where. There may be hundreds or thousands of
people in this tree. I don't know where but I know I'm related to this tree over here." And
then they find another anchor over here. Different tree with hundreds of thousands of people. "Oh,
I've got to be related to that tree." Well, as they're perusing through those trees, they may
find an intersect. One person, maybe two people, and that intersects. Since they're related to both
trees, that is a likely path of where they are related. And so now, they have a starting point
that maybe four, or five, or six generations back that they can start to build down.
To find out who their other ancestors are. And the more of these anchor trees that there are,
the more chance that people are going to be able to fill in their blank lines or start their lines
to begin with. So, if you do have a full tree, I would highly recommend having your DNA tested.
And making sure it's linked to those trees on there's Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage, and Ancestry.
Because that is going to be immensely helpful for other people who are doing research
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And now, for the bonus, I told you I was going to tell you. The one reason and that is the
main reason. But here is the second reason or the bonus reason of why you should still get tested.
The difference in DNA compared to other records is DNA cannot be falsified. You receive DNA
from your biological mother and your biological father. And they received it from theirs as well.
By having your DNA tested and comparing that to your other known relatives. And by this,
I'm talking about your first cousins, your second cousins,
and even your third cousins that you may know about. You can confirm that your family tree is
accurate. One of the things that many people have found as they've done DNA testing
is that there was an inaccuracy in their family tree. There was a grandfather or great-grandfather
or even a father who they thought was their biological father but was not. And so,
by doing this, you may help find out different sections of your family tree that
are not the biological part of your family tree. They may be who raised who, as from a from a
familial standpoint. But from a biological standpoint, there may be sections that are
incorrect. Without having your DNA tested, you're not going to be able to verify that. So, that's
the bonus. Is it's something for you, as far as another record, to help verify different things.
But the main benefit is for other people. Because you're tying that great family tree that you have
to a set of DNA so down at the bottom that is going to match with other people. So,
if you would like to learn about how adoptees can start searching for their family tree,
then watch this video up above. And if you'd like to learn something new, then you can try
out this video down below. So, if you would like to learn about how adopt... Oh, I gotta sneeze!