Tracing Ancestral Lines in the 1700s Using DNA
Many of us are faced with genealogical brick walls involving ancestors who lived in the 1700s or early 1800s. Autosomal DNA testing is increasingly becoming an integral part of modern genealogical research used to help solve these types of problems. You can increase the power of using autosomal DNA test results to predict correct genealogical relationships in the 1700s if you test multiple descendants of an ancestral couple on multiple lines of descent. This presentation will provide examples where DNA analysis was used to solve genealogical research questions involving ancestors who lived in the 1700s and will demonstrate how you can start making these types of discoveries as well.
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Tim Janzen
Tim Janzen is a family practice doctor at South Tabor Family Physicians in Portland, Oregon. He has had an interest in genealogical research for over 40 years and has particularly been involved in Mennonite genealogical research for the past 25 years. He has a web site that summarizes many different sources available for Mennonite genealogical research found at www.timjanzen.com and has given many presentations about Mennonite genealogy in the United States and Canada. For the past 15 years Tim has been become very interested in using DNA analysis to help complement traditional genealogical research. Glenn Penner and he are the co-administrators of the Mennonite DNA project at www.mennonitedna.com. Tim has a strong interest in many areas of genetic genealogy, particularly in regard to phasing and autosomal DNA analysis. He has been a consultant to the genetics company 23andMe as one of their Ancestry Ambassadors. He has also been a consultant for Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage, and Ancestry.com. He periodically gives presentations on genetic genealogy and also does private genetic genealogy consulting on a case-by-case basis. Tim is married to Rachel Janzen and they have 4 children.
