What’s in a name? Y chromosomes, surnames and the genetic genealogy revolution

Posted on August 23, 2011 by mallerstang

Turi King and Mark Jobling from the University  of Leicester have published another interesting paper “What’s in a name? Y  chromosomes, surnames and the genetic genealogy revolution” in the latest issue  of “Trends in Genetics“. This article is essential reading for all Guild members  and everyone with an interest in surnames. There is a brief review of the paper  on Blaine Bettinger’s  blog:

http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/2009/08/25/whats-in-a-name-genetic-genealogy-article-from-trends-in-genetics/

In  case the link gets mangled here is a short  version: http://tinyurl.com/ksxezr

Thanks to Debbie Kennett for this entry

About mallerstang

Member of the Guild of One Name Studies researching the name CUMPSTON and its variants. You can see my website at www.cumpston.org.uk I have a new study of the name LAXEN with its own blog at https://laxenresearch.wordpress.com/ and a further research blog which is not registered as a one name study of KNAGGS of Flamborough https://knaggsresearch.wordpress.com/
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1 Response to What’s in a name? Y chromosomes, surnames and the genetic genealogy revolution

  1. Jim Sanders says:
    January 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    Surnames and genealogy go hand in hand. Surname studies and genetic genealogy can yield a lot of very useful information. But what do you do if you’re trying to find your ancestor who’s name has been misspelled or has been to badly garbled? Check out the blog about
    names and genealogy.

    Regards, Jim

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