THE FACTS YOU NEED
DNA SERIES
RESEARCH ZONE
Once you have received your DNA results, and got over the initial excitement, you will probably look at all the matches with a growing sense of confusion and surprise. In every issue of Family Tree, we will be looking at difierent DNA conundrums and I hope that this series will help you:
• make sense of your test results
• Find family connections worldwide
• and get the answers you need to your DNA questions.
Reader question
Q Reader Vic Grimes writes: My brick walls follow the routes of my Y-DNA and mtDNA.
About my father line
The Y-DNA goes back to Ireland and my 3x great-grandfather. His name was John Grimes and I believe he was born in 1825. I only guess this as his death certificate had him aged 77 in 1902. On the census in the UK he said he was from Ballyglass in County Mayo. I cannot find a birth for him so I cannot go further back.