Working with DNA in Dubai Historical - Lost Colony Related Category | Ethnicity Category

Publications

Working with DNA

5 Quick Steps to Genealogy Success
More than five quick tips to help anyone with their genealogy. This is the modern day equivalent of leaving a trail of bread crumbs.

Autosomal DNA Testing and Analysis
This paper explains how autosomal testing works and provides examples of the various tests and results.

Creating Your Personal DNA Pedigree Chart
For those who are hoping to prove minority heritage, creating a personal pedigree chart is essential. It’s a useful tool for anyone who is interesting in documenting the DNA heritage of all of their ancestral lines. Includes a color DNA pedigree chart to start the process.

DNA Testing for Genealogy – The Basics
This paper explains the basics of DNA testing for genealogy. This is THE paper for beginners and those wanting to understand how DNA testing works and who to test for the best results.

Genetic Genealogy Resources
A handout for conferences and speaking engagements that provides a list of resources for genetic genealogy.

Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups, Quick Reference
This provides a one paragraph quick and basic description of each mitochondrial DNA haplogroup.

Time to Most Common Recent Ancestor and Mutation Rates
This article explains about how the time to the most common recent ancestor is calculated, how mutation rates are involved, and how the generation length affects these calculations. This is most useful for those who are trying to understand how they match others with the same or different surnames.

What do I do with my DNA Results? - 10 Easy Steps
Ten easy tips for what to do with DNA results and how to better use them for genealogy. This is focused on the results of Family Tree DNA customers.

Y DNA Haplogroups, Quick Reference
This provides a one paragraph quick and basic description of each Y-line.
Ethnicity Category

DNA Testing and the Melungeons - 2008
This paper was written for the Melungeon Historical Society and focused on DNA testing for Melungeon heritage. The Melungeons were a tri-racial group of individuals who were primarily settled in Hancock and Hawkins Counties in Tennessee and Scott and Russell Counties in Virginia in the early 1800s. Recently, autosomal testing has been construed to “prove” exotic ancestry for the Melungeons, and this paper discussed the various tests used, what they do and don’t prove, and why.

Finding Ancestors of Bondage and Color
A short article about ethnic heritage.

Melungeons and DNA – 2009
This paper is a summary of a conference presentation given by Roberta at the Melungeon Historical Society conference in Rogersville, Tn. in June of 2009. This discusses who the Melungeons are, who they are not, and what DNA testing has shown to date. Roberta is the DNA Advisor for the Melungeon Core DNA project, the Melungeon Historical Society and is a board member as well.

Mixed Heritage – The Jumble that We Are
An entertaining and enlightening story about Roberta’s early memories of Native American heritage and the social ramifications of carrying that ancestry. As an adult, she discovered her African roots as well. Join her on her journey.

Proving Your Native American Heritage
This paper explains the various tests available to genealogists who are seeking to prove their Native American or other minority heritage, how they work, what they mean and how to interpret the results.

Where Have All the Indians Gone? Native American Eastern Seaboard Dispersal, Genealogy and DNA in Relation to Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony of Roanoke.
This paper was academically published in the Fall 2009 Issue of the Journal of Genetic Genealogy

Abstract: The characterization of Y-chromosome and mtDNA haplogroups in Native Americans and other populations is allowing important new information to be brought to bear on the question of what happened to the 115 colonists who came to the Roanoke colony in 1587, now known as the Lost Colony, because there years later, in 1590, all the colonists were gone. DNA projects for Lumbee and other Native American tribes, along with DNA projects for Melungeon, Waccamaw, and other groups who might have taken in Roanoke survivors are providing important information that bears on the subject of what happened to the colonists. Information on the native tribes just before and just after first contact with Europeans is reviewed, along with diaries and other contemporary accounts of early English explorations and settlements. Much of the available information provides tantalizing evidence that some of the colonists survived and were assimilated into local Native American tribes.
Historical - Lost Colony Related Category

Beechland: Oral History versus Historical Records
This paper takes a look a the oral history of Beechland (NC) that includes the Lost Colonist and Native American families, and compares that history to available records to determine if the records confirm of disprove the oral history.

Lost Colony Indigenous Groups
Article and references related to the Native American tribes and other groups associated with the Lost Colony and the area where the colonists may have located, if they in fact survived.

The Lost Colony – Colonist Roster and Other People of Interest - 2009
This includes the Roster of the Lost Colony, a list of others involved in the earlier preparatory military colonies and a list of families believes to be Native and are considered to be “of interest” as possible descendants of the Lost Colony in North Carolina.

The Story of Roanoke, Sir Walter Raleigh’s Lost Colony
How did 117 English people come to be lost on the North Carolina Outer Banks in 1587? What events in Europe led up to the first English colony in the New World? Why were they abandoned for three years? How did John White attempt to find the colonists, and what efforts were made to locate them after 1590? Did they survive?