The man holes
The missing fathers on Father’s Day Like every family history researcher, The Legal Genealogist has them. Those “man holes” in the family tree. The places in the branches where a father should be. And on this Father’s Day here in the United States, taking...DNA favor
I neeeeeed this one The Legal Genealogist has determined that Francis Marion Robertson appears in dozens of family trees on Ancestry. And I Do Need A favor on this one. List him with the right parents and grandparents, wouldja? His mama, Samantha (Battles) Robertson,...Two’s not the charm…
About that “closest” match… It was one of The Legal Genealogist’s goals for 2022: to identify the nearest as-yet-unidentified autosomal DNA match at each of the major testing companies. Solving the first one, at MyHeritage DNA, was easy, thanks...Mother’s Day 2022
And five generations… It’s Mother’s Day here in the United States. It’s DNA Sunday here at The Legal Genealogist. So what else could I possibly do? Yep. Five generations of mitochondrial DNA, haplogroup H3g. Me. My mother Hazel (Cottrell)...DNA Day 2022
Celebrating that last eight percent… Tomorrow, April 25, 2022, is National DNA Day here in the United States. It’s a day to celebrate “the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of DNA’s double helix in 1953,”1...No assumptions!
P1 and P2 are not always the same! So Ancestry launched a new DNA testing feature this week that caused quite a buzz. Called SideView, it gives testers a view of what Ancestry calls “ethnicity inheritance” — the estimated portions of each geopolitical region included...Ancestry launches SideView
Parents’ admixture without parents tested NOTE as of noon EDT: The Ancestry press release says “Ethnicity inheritance, powered by SideView™ technology, is available now for all AncestryDNA customers.” Um… from what’s being said...One down…
… three to go It was one of The Legal Genealogist’s goals for 2022: to identify the nearest as-yet-unidentified autosomal DNA match at each of the major testing companies. Including — at MyHeritage DNA — “match JS, a predicted 3rd – 4th cousin...A decade more
Potential testers in those entries Some said it before the 1950 census was released on Friday. And some others said it after the 1950 census was released on Friday. And The Legal Genealogist doesn’t understand how they could have said it. How can anyone truly...Subscribe by Email
