FYI....Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [DNA] New book: "Unlocking Your Genetic History" by Thomas H. Shawker Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:00:07 EDT I just received "Unlocking Your Genetic History: A Step-byStep Guide to Discovering Your Family's Medical and Genetic Heritage" from Amazon today. It's by Thomas H. Shawker, M.D., and it's in the NGS Guides series (NGS = National Genealogical Society). Dr. Shawker is chairman of the NGS's Family Health and Heredity Committee, and indeed the first part of the book appears to be medically oriented. Genealogical applications come into play in the latter part of the book. I've just barely skimmed the book, so I'll list the chapter titles to give you some idea of the coverage: 1) Ignorance Is Not Bliss: Know Your Family's Health History 2) Dominant and Recessive Diseases: Our Genetic Inheritance 3) When Genes Go Bad 4) Compiling Your Family's Health History 5) Do You Speak Medicalese? 6) Draw Your Pedigree 7) What Have I Found? 8) Common and Important Genetic Diseases 9) Tracking Your Genes: Molecular Genealogy 10) Y Chromosome Testing: Your Father's Father's Father... 11) Mitochondrial DNA: Tracking Mom's Line 12) More Information on the Internet 13) Ethics, Privacy, and the Future of Genetics and Genealogy And we're in print! I was tickled to see a reference to the GENEALOGY-DNA mailing list in the index. He writes "Your posted questions will be answered by extremely knowledgeable experts. This exceptional site is a 'must' for anyone interested in using genetic testing for genealogy." If we get some new subscribers from this recommendation, I hope we can live up to the advance billing. The whole field may be reaching critical mass. I know of two other books scheduled for release this fall, and I've heard passing rumors of others. There's a whole bunch of people out there who may become intrigued and convinced of the legitimacy of this approach when they see multiple books on the topic, so the more the merrier! Ann Turner - GENEALOGY-DNA List Administrator Search or Browse the archives, Subscribe or Unsubscribe at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/DNA/GENEALOGY-DNA.html