2020 is a leap year. So was 1932, the year that my husband’s great-grandmother Jessie (Sturtevant) Galt died in Otranto, Mitchell County, Iowa. Jessie was...
Feb292020
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Jul032019
Case Studies Using Mitochondrial DNA–Update
In 2017 I published a blog post highlighting published case studies using mitochondrial DNA. It was updated in January, April, and July 2019, and now it’s time for another update! Journal articles Henningfield, Melinda Daffin. “A Family for Mary (Jones) Hobbs Clark of Carroll County, Arkansas.” National Genealogical Society...
Mar132019
A Tale of Two DNA Matches
At RootsTech last month both MyHeritage and AncestryDNA announced new DNA tools and features. For MyHeritage, these were AutoClusters and Theory of Family Relativity (TFR); for AncestryDNA they were enhancements to DNA match lists and ThruLines. Like everyone in the genetic genealogy community, I’ve been exploring the new tools...
Jan112019
Case Studies using Mitochondrial DNA–Update
In 2017 I published a blog post highlighting published case studies using mitochondrial DNA. It was updated in early 2019, and now it’s time for another update! Journal articles Henningfield, Melinda Daffin. “A Family for Mary (Jones) Hobbs Clark of Carroll County, Arkansas.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 107 (March...
Jan092018
Tips for DNA Testers–Creating Family Trees that Let Your Matches Connect
DNA databases just keep growing–Leah LaPerle Larkin’s August 2017 size update shows AncestryDNA topping five million, before the holiday sales. Wired reported that Ancestry sold about 1.5 million additional test kits over Thanksgiving weekend alone,[1. Megan Molteni, “Ancestry’s Genetic Testing Kits Are Heading for Your Stocking This Year,” 1...
