Last week I gave some background information and shared my objective and limitations for my current DNA project, Finding William's Father. I also sent a letter to a potential Y-DNA test taker. On Sunday afternoon I uploaded my Dad’s DN ...
Reflection: Research Like a Pro With DNA Study Group
The last two weeks have been busy ones! The bulk of my time was spent completing the report for my Research Like a Pro with DNA study group. It was exciting to organize everything I had discovered and write an analysis and conclusions along with fu ...
Research Like a Pro with DNA Study Group: Research Planning
Last week in the Research Like a Pro with DNA study group, we discussed Research Planning. I love the planning stage of a research project. This is where everything starts coming together. My research objective is to extend the ance ...
Family History Tools and Resources
This week I have been having fun working on my project for the Research Like a Pro With DNA study group I am participating in. I have been learning so much! I wrote two articles to share what I've been doing. First, in Discovering Ancestor Migrati ...
Exploring DNA Tools
Last week in my Research Like a Pro with DNA study group we began exploring DNA tools and methodology. Up to this point, I have spent a lot of time looking at family trees of DNA matches and examining shared matches as I have been color-coding DNA m ...
Discover, Gather, and Connect
This week I helped a young woman discover some of her ancestors. She previously didn’t even know her grandparents’ full names. She was able to track down their names, and we entered them into her new FamilySearch account. One of her grandfathers is ...
A Deep Dive into Polish Research
This has been an exciting and productive week! I began a new project that involves two new-to-me areas of genealogical research - Poland and DNA. I have begun a project in which the objective is to extend the ancestry of a client whose pa ...
