Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
We think of blended families as a modern phenomenon, but they were pretty standard in Colonial times. I wrote a story based on historical records of my ancestor Arthur Parr and his relatives during the American Revolution. Arthur had four…
Just to be upfront, I don’t have an answer yet to this only the questions. I have been working with genealogy for most of my life and with the DNA aspect of genealogy for several years. I already had my…
In genealogy circles, family stories are highly suspect. Some are outright lies. Others are just wishful thinking. But some events started the story, so it is worth investigating every story to see what is behind the story. Where Did the…
Finding relatives through DNA consists of looking at and evaluating the DNA match and then working through the genealogy paper trail to find out when and how we are related. Two sisters, Joy and Lois, contacted me about a match.…
Awhile ago Tom asked me a question about DNA and privacy. I don’t think I had much of an answer then but today I have a new perspective. Yesterday news broke out that police had caught the Golden State Killer…