Paula Williams

This month, we revisited news and new tools from the past year, presenting them chronologically as they were announced throughout the year. That order is mostly followed here.

Ancestry and 23andMe have just released updates to their estimates, so it’s a good time to explore what they mean. Here we share links discussed during the meeting and other helpful information.

This month, we talked about surprises in our DNA results. But first, some news items: Barbara Vines Little’s book, A Researcher’s Guide to Virginia’s Historical Records, is now available through the Virginia Genealogical Society. See … Read more

This month, we explored how to build trees to identify DNA matches, and how to use DNA matches to help build our own genealogical trees. First, we discussed a couple of updates: MyHeritage’s Cousin Finder … Read more

This month, we explored Ancestry’s clustering tool and how we can use it to answer genealogical questions, or to simply learn from it while we wait for more customization options to happen later this year. … Read more

Stuck with your genealogical DNA research? Sometimes looking at our matches in different ways can give us new directions for our research. We discussed some ideas to turn your match list on its side! First, … Read more