Genealogical.com attended the East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference from October 4-6, at the Maritime Conference Center in Baltimore Maryland. Other exhibitors in attendance included My Heritage, Family TreeDNA, various DNA experts and contractors, and several genealogical societies from Pennsylvania and Maryland.
Genealogical.com author Roberta Estes delivered several lectures, pinch hit for an ailing speaker in two sessions, was a panelist in other sessions of the conference, as well as autographed copies of her books, DNA for Native American Genealogy and her 2024 publication, The Complete Guide to Family TreeDNA. We sold out all the copies of the color version of the FTDNA book and a lesser number of the black and white version.
As genealogists who participate in genetic testing know, genetic test results depicted on the Internet appear in full color. Testing companies use color to make it easier for the user to grasp the findings that are most pertinent to the tester, visualize the diversity of outcomes, pick out common ancestors, observe the differences between generations, and much more. Naturally, when an author describes color screen shots in the text of a black and white book, her descriptions require the reader to transliterate color descriptions onto what are now black and white images.
As all publishers know, it’s much more expensive to produce a book in full color than in black and white. This is especially the case when they publish relatively small quantities of a highly specialized book, such as The Complete Guide to Family TreeDNA. This is why the original print edition was published in black and white. Based on comments from several customers and author Roberta Estes herself, we decided to create a free full color download of pages whose meaning were most difficult to decipher when applying color descriptions onto the black and white images. If you own the black and white edition and have not already done so, you can still DOWNLOAD THE COLOR SUPPLEMENT HERE.
On the other hand, if you, like the attendees at the East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference, are going to consult Ms. Estes’ book on a regular basis and are content to pay the higher price for the full color edition, HERE’S THAT OPTION.
