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
In honor of Father’s Day, we talked about the men who contributed to our DNA, and how using Y-DNA can help with some of our genealogical puzzles. Here are some helpful links for both news … Read more
First we talked about the fact that Family Tree Maker 2024 is now available. See what’s new here: https://www.mackiev.com/ftm/ftm2024_whats_new.html Tracing our female ancestors can be difficult. We explored how mitochondrial DNA, X-DNA, and autosomal DNA can … Read more
A tried and true method for solving problems is studying how others solved similar problems. In April we will look at some examples of your genealogical puzzles and how they might be solved using DNA … Read more
In March, Paula will be sharing some of her favorite tools, both at the testing companies and third-party tools. Who knows, maybe this will include new toys announced at RootsTech! Here are links to learn … Read more
Make connections with your DNA matches and learn how to collaborate effectively. Here are some of the things we talked about: MyHeritage’s new ethnicity estimate, sharing trees on Ancestry and MyHeritage, sharing DNA results from … Read more
We don’t all have the same experiences in our families, so we shouldn’t expect to answer every genealogical question the same way. Learn ways to use different tools and approaches to solve different problems. Here … Read more