From: The Genetic Genealogist <http://www.thegeneticgenealogist.com/> ------------------------------ Applying Autosomal DNA to Complex Genealogical Questions <http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheGeneticGenealogist/~3/Qt2ZfQLTG2I/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email> Posted: 04 Jul 2015 01:28 PM PDT [image: 800px-DNA_sequence] A new must-read piece of genealogical scholarship using autosomal DNA as evidence was published this week in the *National Genealogical Society Quarterly* <http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/ngsq>, a publication of the National Genealogical Society. The article, authored by Thomas Jones, Ph.D. <https://www.apgen.org/directory/search_detail.html?mbr_id=377> and entitled “Too Few Sources to Solve a Family Mystery? Some Greenfields in Central and Western New York” is one of a tiny handful that use DNA as one of several different pieces of evidence to answer a genealogical question. While issues of the *NGSQ* are available only to members, gaining access to the benefits of NGS <http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/home> – including the *NGSQ *and the increasing number of articles incorporating DNA – is well worth the $65 membership fee. *Where is the DNA Scholarship?* I’ve lamented before about the lack of publications that incorporate DNA evidence. Indeed, even when JoGG <http://www.jogg.info/>was active, it published only a few articles in either pure methodology or that incorporated DNA into other types of genealogical evidence to examine a genealogical question. Unfortunately, without these publications, it can be very difficult for the genetic genealogist to have a model – or new ideas or suggestions – for either *using* DNA or *writing* about DNA. Most of us are operating as islands without sharing our methodologies or results with others. Hopefully, publications like *NGSQ* and *The Record <http://newyorkfamilyhistory.org/research-discover/elibrary/record>* (and others!) will publish more articles incorporating DNA! *A Growing List* This article joins a growing list articles in the *NGSQ* that apply DNA to a genealogical question: - Thomas W. Jones, “Too Few Sources to Solve a Family Mystery? Some Greenfields in Central and Western New York.”*National Genealogical Society Quarterly* 103 (June 2015): 85-103. - Morna Lahnice Hollister, “Goggins and Goggans of South Carolina: DNA Helps Document the Basis of an Emancipated Family’s Surname,” *National Genealogical Society Quarterly *102 (September 2014): 165-76. - Elizabeth Shown Mills, “Testing the FAN Principle against DNA: Zilphy (Watts) Price Cooksey Cooksey of Georgia and Mississippi,” *National Genealogical Society Quarterly* 102 (June 2014): 129–52. - And more…