Amazon Reviews include: Regine Bridle, President of Belgian Researchers Association

        You will find this book highly engaging and easy to read. It's as though the author is there in front of you telling you how he pieced together and re-wove the stories of his ancestors and set them back in their geographical and historical time frame. 

        The DNA part was of great interest to me and I had until reading this book found it rather confusing. The author uses his own results to explain how and why DNA has become a real genealogical research tool and is truly beginning to open new possibilities for those who have run out of records to look through.

        Absolutely a MUST-Read for everyone, with or without specifically Flemish roots.

Abstract: Conventional genealogy relies on documents that can contain errors, may have been written to mislead, or could be partially destroyed.  Some relationships are never recorded. To go beyond the constraints of documents, genetic genealogy can be deployed. Through DNA testing paternal or maternal lineages can be disclosed.

The author combines in this book conventional and genetic genealogy to reveal the history of three Flemish families over five centuries. He describes the occupations of each of these families as well as the history of lace making, beer brewing, and immigration.

With concrete examples he illustrates the interpretation of DNA results and the uploading of those results to public databases. The how-to-do section includes a description of various DNA tests, how to select among them, and how to use DNA to document the genetic inheritances of your children.

This book also includes an introduction to the Flanders-Flemish DNA project with the first analysis of Flemish DNA records collected via the web and a summary of the deep ancestry of people with Flemish roots. These project results that have never been published before should be of great interest to Flemish people around the world.

xxiv, 372 pp., illustrated, indexed, paper, ISBN 0-9725526-7-7

         

         Published by Gateway Press Inc  for Dokus Publishing, Arlington, Va