So, given the varying results between AncestryDNA and FTDNA, I decided to test with 23andMe as well. I talked before about how AncestryDNA...

My FTDNA myOrigins results Earlier, I talked about the new myOrigins results at FTDNA and how I had zero results for my British heritage...

An ancestor's place of worship and burial location are not necessarily one in the same. Many places of worship in dense urban areas did ...

Family Tree DNA users might have noticed their new and hopefully improved myOrigins which replaces the old and less detailed Population Fin...

Probably all American have branches in their tree which dead end in the US. How do you determine what their origins might have been when you...

The sources of X chromosome DNA for women, from The Genetic Genealogist Thanks to Gedmatch.com , every once and a while I will come acro...

It's finally here! Pennsylvania Death Certificates from 1906 to 1924 are now available on Ancestry.com. Actually, they became available ...

I've started a new genealogy forum called GeneaBoards because there isn't really one with a good interface/layout and good moderati...

I still feel like I have only just scratched the surface of the potential of DNA analysis for genealogy purposes. Thanks to GEDmatch , a fre...

I thought it might be useful, particularly for some beginners but also for those like me who always forget, to list when and where vital rec...