For years, I've wanted to solve the mystery of who my great-grandmother June's father was - ever since my grandmother first told me ...

I took advantage of the Father's Day sales at FamilyTreeDNA to order the Y-37 marker test to explore my deep paternal ancestry. I d...

Activated three AncestryDNA kits this weekend - one for my wife and one for each of my parents.  This will be the second test for them, as t...

My AncestryDNA results came in last week, and above are the graphics for the ethnicity estimates.  Although I know that these should b...

Mom's 23andMe cousin Jack matches her on two chromosomes, and matches me as well.  He is predicted to be my 3rd to 6th cousin. ...

Received the email yesterday that my 'new' 23andMe experience was ready, so I took the plunge and logged into the site.  After the p...

Made a connection with my first good case of triangulation on chromosome 15 today.  Contacted a recent match at 23andMe (Robert) and began l...

Mom's cousin Rita is a predicted 3rd to 6th cousin match at 23andMe , matching both mom and I on chromosome 1. One of the surname...

One of my dad's distant matches at 23andme , Jason, shares no DNA with me.  He matches dad on chromosome 10, and is predicted to be a 3r...

Another 23andme match for my mom, Stephanie, was predicted to be a 3rd to distant cousin, but doesn't share any DNA with me.  She matche...

Another recent match at 23andMe that had a nice family tree prepared was dad's cousin Jonelle, who was predicted to be 3rd to distant co...

Another recent 23andMe match that was added to my spreadsheet was dad's cousin William, who also matched me on chromosome 12. ...

Another recent 23andMe match that I've added to my atDNA spreadsheet was mom's cousin Dennis S., who also matched me on chromosome 2...

Working on following up with the recent matches at 23andMe and adding them to my atDNA spreadsheets for tracking. Dad's DNA match with...

I logged into 23andMe this week and realized it had been awhile, I had over 125 new relative matches on my dad and mom's results.  Reac...

Corresponding recently with mom's DNA match, Linda, with whom I share no DNA.  Linda matches mom on only one segment, chromosome 1, a...

Recently made a connection with one of Eileen's matches at 23andMe that turns out to be her 3rd cousin once removed on her maternal Lew...

Here is a screenshot of the top ten DNA matches for my dad at 23andMe.  I am obviously the closest match.  For privacy reasons, I'v...

Have spent some time this weekend updating and adding to my personal tree at Ancestry.  I've neglected it for awhile, but with all of th...

Here is a screenshot of mom's top ten DNA matches at 23andMe.  Obviously, I am her closest match.  For privacy reasons, I've er...