Helping the present understand the past
In January I posted about some of my previous-year accomplishments and current-year goals for my genealogy. I decided to do a mid-year check-in to see where I’m at on meeting my goals for this year. Here’s the list I began the year with: Continue the research I’ve begun on D1′s family and start collecting proof…
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…
Ancestors If you could see your Ancestors all standing in a row Would you be proud of them or not – or don’t you really know? Some strange discoveries are made in climbing family trees And some of them, you know, do not particularly please. If you could see your Ancestors all standing in…
I originally started this post a week before my Blogiversary thinking to post it on the actual day along with the re-launch of my blog. Ah the best of intentions, right? LOL, unfortunately I ran into some technical difficulties with the blog re-launch (typical technology!) so things didn’t quite happen as planned. But I’m not…