Get expert genetic genealogy advice to help plan your DNA testing strategy, review your DNA results, and help you focus your efforts to achieve your specific research goals.
Consultations are held online. Screen sharing provides flexibility for reviewing results, demonstrating features, tools, research, and providing practical assistance. Phone consultations are also available, if preferred. Consultations are recorded, allowing you to watch and learn afterwards.
Consultations are customised to your specific needs, circumstances, and research goals. Content may include a combination of practical genetic genealogy topics (refer to list below).
Don’t wait years or decades more for answers about your origins. An interactive consultation with value-added recording can cost less than a fancy new hair style/colour, a new outfit, a fad tech gadget, or utility bill – however, the potentially life-changing impact and value could be priceless!
Book & pay online, then you will receive instructions to share your information and DNA results, and how to prepare for the consultation.
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Were you or one of your parents adopted, donor conceived, a foundling (abandoned newborn), a child migrant, a war baby, an amnesiac, or is one or both parents or a grandparent unknown for any reason?
We’ll assess your DNA results in the context of identifying close biological relatives.
Is the answer already there waiting for you? Could genetic genealogy research help progress your case, or should you wait for better matches? Could testing known relatives help? What should your next steps be?
Has your DNA test revealed unexpected results, misattributed parentage, or one or more unknown, mystery close genetic matches?
Let’s find answers for you!
Do you have complex family relationship questions or family mysteries to explore?
Who really relates to whom? Does what you were told make no sense?
Do you want to confirm or disprove particular relationships?
Do your DNA results reflect and confirm your previous family history research?
Or perhaps you believe you have solved a family mystery, however, you would like your findings reviewed.
Begin your DNA testing experience with a strategy appropriate to your family situation and research goals.
Learn which DNA test type to select, which company to use, which family members to test.
Learn about ordering test kits, sample collection, return shipping, account settings, results, access, privacy, sharing, family trees and other options.
Learn basic genetic genealogy concepts and terminology, understand relationship degrees, estimates and probabilities.
Learn the different types of DNA testing available for genealogy, and the special inheritance patterns and uses for autosomal DNA, X-DNA, mtDNA and Y-DNA.
Are you an experienced family historian wanting to learn to use DNA testing as a research tool?
Are you a DIY researcher needing guidance with methodology, progress and next steps?
Practical assistance downloading your DNA data and uploading it to other genealogy DNA matching databases to get new matches for free.
Learn to use basic DNA tools such a chromosome browser, autosomal matrices, GEDmatch, DNA Painter tools, chromosome mapping, WATO (What are the odds?), or DNA account features such as shared matches, colour grouping, ThruLines, Theory of Family Relativity, Family Matching, etc.
If the outcome of the consultation is that further research is required to make progress, a research proposal/quote or referral can be arranged.
If you don’t feel comfortable or tech-savvy enough to attend an online consultation, we also offer DNA Result Reviews – which involve us reviewing your DNA results offline and providing you with a written report or a video recording outlining our findings and recommendations. We can also provide proposals/quotes for projects requiring further or more lengthy research. See Services.
