I’ve recently had occasion to give several library talks about researching in places that are new to you. Generally, family historians start by doing research in the county and state where their ancestors lived most recently. There is a good chance that they know about the area–what it looks...
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Jan102017
Tips for Attaching Trees to Your DNA Results
Today AncestryDNA announced that they sold 1.4 million DNA test kits in the fourth quarter of 2016, setting a sales record for the quarter and bringing their DNA database over three million participants.[1. “Ancestry Sets AncestryDNA Sales Record Over Holiday Period and Fourth Quarter,” 10 January 2017, Ancestry Corporate,...

Oct282016
“Removal Orders were new to me…”
In the recent Legacy News e-newsletter from Legacy Family Tree, Canadian genealogist Lorine McGinnis Schulze wrote about finding a...

Sep132016
Identity and Timelines–New Tools for Download
I recently published an article called “Identity as a Research Tool” in The Septs, the journal of the Irish Genealogical Society International. In the article I used the case of two Iowa men with...
