David Dowell

David Dowell

David Dowell has two degrees in history and two in library science as well as 35 years of experience as a librarian and 4 years as a special investigative officer in the USAF. He taught courses in U.S. genealogy research, European genealogy research and Ethics in the Information Age. He has chaired both the Ethics and Genealogy Committees of the American Library Association. As a member of the ISOGG, NGS, NEHGS, SCGS & MTGS, he coordinates 2 surname yDNA projects and a yDNA haplogroup project. He blogs as Dr. D. Digs Up Ancestors. His two most recent books are Crash Course in Genealogy (2011) and NextGen Genealogy: The DNA Connection (2015).

David's Upcoming Live Webinars (1)

Wed, August 2 2023: 18:00 UTC
How and When Did Our European Ancestors Get to Europe?
Wed, August 2 2023: 18:00 UTC
We can trace the paths of ancestors far back into prehistory. We will never know their names or individual vital information. However BIG Y 700 and mtDNA tests now allow us to estimate the paths their haplogroups took as they migrated out of Africa and into Europe.
David Dowell
We can trace the paths of ancestors far back into prehistory. We will never know their names or individual vital information. However BIG Y 700 and mtDNA tests now allow us to estimate the paths their haplogroups took as they migrated out of Africa and into Europe.
Wed, August 2 2023: 18:00 UTC