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Interview with IGSI’s Dave Miller

Last month I had the opportunity to talk with the Irish Genealogical Society International’s Dave Miller, creator of the IGSI podcast. Dave interviewed Tom Rice and me about the upcoming IGSI webinar Challenges in Irish Family Research: Brick Wall Panel Discussion, which will be broadcast June 17. Tom and...

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Researching New Places

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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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,...

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