Day 59 of 110: DAR and DNA

Recently, DAR announced that it will now consider Y-DNA evidence as part of a prospective members application.

NSDAR states that DAR staff genealogists will now consider Y-DNA evidence along with more traditional genealogical sources during the verification of member-related applications. With this change in policy, DAR recognizes the importance of DNA in genealogical research, but also that DNA evidence alone is not definitive enough to prove the exact relationships of remote ancestors.  Although various types of DNA tests are commercially available, DAR staff genealogists will only consider Y-DNA 37 Marker test results.

All the information about this new policy is available at the DAR website.