I’ve been working on a new template to use when reaching out to my DNA matches, hoping to inspire some collaboration.  Here’s an example:  H...

Sunday morning is suppossed to be the day when I work on my DNA matches.  Today it was my AncestryDNA matches who had the workout.  I began ...

Moved on to the next phase of my census projects to update my database to the 1880 census.  Completed the 1940 census awhile back and have j...

Back at Rootstech in 2017, I purchased a LivingDNA test kit and awaited my results.  I was intrigued to see what they might say about the r...

It has been awhile since I've updated on how the family history work is going.  While work has kept me busy, I have managed to begin up...

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...

After the Indiana Genealogical Society's annual conference, where I heard some powerful lectures from Blaine Bettinger , I've been ...

Back in April, I had the opportunity to hear Blaine Bettinger speak at the Indiana Genealogical Society annual conference in Fort Wayne.  T...

During the cold, wintry days between Christmas and New Year's Day, I spent my genealogy time contacting and tracking the DNA matche...

While at RootsTech last week, I was reminded that MyHeritageDNA was allowing people who had tested at other sites to upload their raw DNA ...

Have spent some time this week reaching out to my maternal great-aunt Ruby's DNA matches at FamilyTreeDNA.  It has been awhile since I&#...

Was contacted by April, who is helping work out the ancestry for Danny, the man who reached out to me but didn't know his paternal ances...

I sent out a massive spreadsheet with charts of those who matched myself, my father and cousin Jeffrey hoping to spur further research and c...

Reached out this weekend to all of my close matches at AncestryDNA and encouraged them to share or link their results to a family tree.  So ...

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...

I haven't written about my AncestryDNA matches, other than a quick post about my ethnicity results .  I was pleasantly surprised to se...

A match at GEDMATCH for Eileen reached out to see if we could establish a connection and asked if she had any ancestry from Slovenia or Aust...

My two maternal first cousins recently tested at FamilyTreeDNA, and the above chart show the amount of DNA they share with me. Cousin ...

Perhaps I was a little too impatient with AncestryDNA, but after I received my results, I noticed that the search feature was not working on...

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