Helping the present understand the past
My blog has suffered a bit since I began ProGen 18 months ago but I’m happy to say that I completed ProGen last month and it was absolutely worth all the work! Just in time too because I was, once again, fortunate enough to attend the NGS conference this year. The ability to attend national conferences such…
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My two most recent projects seem to have taken me away from blogging lately. I can’t believe how long I let my blog go without writing. Color me embarrassed. One of the projects I’ve been letting occupy all my blogging time is that I signed up for one of the Mastering Genealogical Proof Standard study…
I’m obviously really excited to have been able to do my DNA. My problem now is that I really want to understand more about my DNA, not just take the pie chart Ancestry provided and be happy about it. I know I have DNA that didn’t show up on the Ancestry pie chart and I’ve…
I’ve been on such a genealogy-high since getting my DNA results back. I honestly didn’t think I could get much more excited until…first contact!!!!! I had pages of hints to review from AncestryDNA and as I was beginning to review each match on my DNA profile I received an email through Ancestry from one of…
I had a few minutes today to take a look at my AncestryDNA results and surprisingly…there were NO SURPRISES! Between my grandparents’ knowledge and stories and the work the family has done on the genealogy already I was well prepared for what Ancestry told me. Which, I have to say, was almost disappointing, LOL. I’d…