WikiTree Symposium: "DNA Groups and WikiTree" with Mags Gaulden

For a time when Group Project Administrators wanted to share or display lineage information or charts or connections for their projects they used a free site. But with the introduction of the GDPR this other site was taken down. This is where WikiTree can step in with it's incredible DNA features and Free Space profiles to help manage lineages and more. Group Projects are a good fit for WikiTree which has the capabilities and collaboration to help grow the research and reach of these types of projects.
Mags is a Professional Genealogist specializing in Genetic Genealogy as the founder of Grandma’s Genes in Ottawa. Growing up in a family full of family historians, Mags was primed to become a Genealogist.
After earning her Bachelors Degree from Columbia College, she began to work her own Genealogy as a “hobby”. This 35-year “hobby” eventually led her to a Leader role with WikiTree, where she currently leads: The DNA Innovators Project and The United Empire Loyalist Project. She also leads the Gaulden, McElmoyle, and Templeton Name Studies and the Gaulden, McElmoyle, and Templeton DNA Group Projects.
Mags is an international Genetic Genealogy Lecturer, Blogger, and Social Media Maven. She serves as Admin for Facebook groups including the ISOGG Facebook Group. She is a former member of the Canadian Casualty Identification Team.
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Through her non-profit work with mitoYDNA.org, Mags and other genetic genealogists are providing a free and accessible YDNA and mtDNA database for the Genealogy Community. “Doing DNA Right”, mitoYDNA.org.
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[@katiemiller8458]

It is great to see different ways people can collaborate with Wikitree and DNA. I may need to get involved in some projects in the future.

[@BonnieDragonKat]

There's also the possibility that you might go into one of these studies with your DNA and not find any connections whatsoever. That happened to me with doing my mother's DNA. She's a height biologically, but the particular branch of the family that were from there it is no information in the family group project for that group. Same for my father's branch. His particular Fox line has no information in the Y DNA test for the fox line. So it does happen that even if there is a family group study there is the possibility you're going to run into an issue because you may not fit in that study even though your DNA tells you that you're part of one family or another.