WHAT IS ANTHROGENEALOGY?

Before genetics laboratory findings became commercially available to us as individual genealogists, the academic world was already applying them to its anthropological studies, although it ignored any application to genealogical studies, which were left to researchers without academic sponsorship.

Anthrogenealogy combines the methods of the two sciences--anthropology, as pursued principally in academic settings, and genealogy, largely with individual or corporate sponsorship or carried out by avocational researchers.

By utilizing Molecular Biology to observe the genetic data trail of a lineage you are now able to connect unknown family members by employment and comparison of specific locations on the Non-Recombining Y or mtDNA we inherited from our fathers and mothers.

Anthrogenealogy is, therefore, our word of choice for the study of deep genealogical origins through means of genetics.

From Merriam-Webster:

GENEALOGY: ge·ne·al·o·gy
Pronunciation: -jE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -gies
Etymology: Middle English genealogie, from Middle French, from Late Latin genealogia, from Greek, from genea race, family + -logia -logy; akin to Greek genos race
Date: 14th century
1 : an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms
2 : regular descent of a person, family, or group of organisms from a progenitor or older form : PEDIGREE
3 : the study of family pedigrees
- ge·ne·a·log·i·cal /"jE-nE-&-'lä-ji-k&l, "je-nE-/ adjective
- ge·ne·a·log·i·cal·ly /-k(&-)lE/ adverb

ANTHROPOLOGY: an·thro·pol·o·gy
Pronunciation: "an(t)-thr&-'pä-l&-jE
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin anthropologistogia, from anthrop- + -logia -logy
Date: 1593
1 : the science of human beings; especially : the study of human beings in relation to distribution, origin, classification, and relationship of races, physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture
- an·thro·po·log·i·cal /-p&-'lä-ji-k&l/ adjective
- an·thro·po·log·i·cal·ly /-ji-k(&-)lE/ adverb
- an·thro·pol·o·gist /"an(t)-thr&-'pä-l&-jist/ noun

From FTDNA-Dexter:

ANTHROGENEALOGY: an·thro·ge·ne·al·o·gy
Pronunciation: "an(t)-thr&amp-jE
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin from anthrop- + Middle English genealogie, from Middle French, from Late Latin genealogia, from Greek, from genea race, family + -logia -logy; akin to Greek genos race
Date: 2000
1 : the science of genealogy by genetics; especially : utilizing molecular biology to trace a lineage beyond the limits of historical records.
- an·thro·ge·ne·a·log·i·cal adjective
- an·thro·ge·ne·a·log·i·cal·ly adverb
- an·thro·ge·ne·a·lo·gist noun