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242-44 paid special attention to the convergence of historical and genetic research. A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts 5/2-4 and 6/1 (2014), pp. "Using a combination of DNA analysis, historical research and classical philology," according to the publisher's description, Old World Roots of the Cherokee, "uncovers the Jewish and Eastern Mediterranean ancestry of the Cherokee and reveals that they originally spoke Greek before adopting the Iroquoian language of their Haudenosaunee allies while the two nations dwelt together in the Ohio Valley." A review in American Indian Culture and Research Journal remarked that it "provides the definitive evidence of relations between Jews, Greeks, Egyptians, and the Cherokee.engaging and useful," while two reviews by James L. In 2012, the same publisher published Yates's Old World Roots of the Cherokee, with a forward by Richard Mack Bettis, the first academic book-length contribution to the subject of Cherokee origins since the 1970s. With Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman, he co-authored a series of three historical monographs of the genealogy of American, Scottish, Welsh and English Jews, all published by scholarly monograph and reference book publisher McFarland & Co. In 2003, he founded the direct-to-consumer genetic testing and DNA profiling company DNA Consultants, where he is owner and principal scientific investigator. After working in corporate communications for the pharmaceutical company Miles Laboratories (now Bayer Corporation), he taught public relations and communications at Georgia Southern University and several other schools.

He has published articles and books in Native American studies and genealogy research, as well as manuscript studies, paleography, archives administration, cataloguing science and library history. He has a doctorate in classical studies with a major in Medieval Latin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote a dissertation on the literary and historical analysis of the twelfth-century Latin satiric masterpiece Ysengrimus. Yates (1950-) is an American genealogist, author, and genetic testing investigator, who was born in Cedartown, Georgia, of Choctaw-Cherokee and Sephardic Jewish ancestry.