Helping the present understand the past
I don’t know if I’ve received a more exciting email. Short, sweet and to the point, that email means my AncestryDNA results that are ready for viewing!! That was so much faster than I expected and now I can’t wait to view them. Sadly I’m not sure I’ll have time to view them right away…
I received the following notice from Ancestry about my DNA sample: Woo hoo how exciting! I’ve been hearing that DNA results from Ancestry are coming back a little faster than 6-8 weeks but I’m a don’t count your chickens before they’ve hatched kind of girl so I’m going to assume it will take the full…
I finally did it…I took the plunge into the world of DNA. DNA is an interesting subject to begin with, but the use of DNA in genealogy has been intriguing for me. I actually wanted to dive into genealogy-DNA close to when it first began to be used for genealogy but I’m a rather cautious…
With the time off from work I had around Christmas time I devoted some time to beginning work on D1’s genealogy. I had no idea what I would find or if it would be difficult to find information on his family but I was prepared for some quality time on different genealogy sites in search…
The last three weeks we’ve talked about birth, marriage and death records. These three types of vital records are the records most genealogists think about when you say the words “vital records”. But there’s a fourth type of vital record that isn’t immediately thought of: divorce records. Obviously divorce records aren’t going to exist for…