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From: "Mills" <>
Subject: FW: [APG] Citing DNA Test Results/Studies
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 18:11:42 -0500


<Does anyone have any advice or guidance on how you cite DNA studies/results
that confirm a parent-child relationship? In the instant case, the child
was born out of wedlock and her biological father is not named on her birth
certificate. Or is it merely sufficient to make a commentary citation
indicating that the relationship has been proven via DNA test?>

Cheri, the following sample is one I've used on lecture handouts over the
past couple of years and it will appear in the upcoming redoux of
*Evidence.*

"Certificate-Native American Ancestry Test: Report of HVS-I Sequencing of
mtDNA from Client #123456789, Brenda Brilliance," report, 2 June 2002,
Dynamite DNA Lab (123 Any Street, Big City, US 00000) to Brenda Brilliance,
Boondock, Alabama.

In other words: <"Report Name," quoting exactly from the document>, report,
<date>, <name of firm> (<address of firm>) to <name and town of client who
received the report>.

You specify a parent-child test, rather than a Native American Ancestry
test, but the same format would apply. Ideally, we would also include the
street address of the recipient of the report and you may wish to do so in
your private files, but given privacy concerns today many people prefer to
use only the town in which someone lives, when they publish their data.

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
Author/editor:
*Isle of Canes*
*Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian*
*Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers,
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