Last year, in a post, I processed some autosomal and Y DNA points of interest in my wife’s family. A total lack of thruline ancestor matches with her paternal surname family, strong matches with more distant cousins on a maternal…
Ancestry has updated origins with more defined regions, so this is a good time to look at the new outcomes. For reference: My 2011 Genome Analysis was described as English or British with significant input from the continent. My dad…
Every so often, I poke around at my wife’s family tree and genetic genealogy. She has the average amount of interest in genealogy that I see in my circles. Her family story is interesting enough to watch an episode here…
I recently watched what I thought was a really good piece from CBC Marketplace on Twins getting DNA tests in 2019. They test with several companies and get different ethnicity estimate results between the various companies and it appears that…
I normally look at ancestry composition, DNA origins and ethnicity estimates as a guessing game. More for entertainment than for specific work in genealogy and that is mainly because you can get some dramatically different results depending on the company…
The previous incarnation of Ancestry Thrulines was DNA Circles which I thought was an excellent way to present the nebulous DNA connections that “might” bind people together, but an unfortunate way to present known connections. ThruLines is, to me, an…
There are generally two fronts in my Elmore genealogy work, one front is identifying branches of the Elmores in the U.S. and getting people tested to try to place them. The second front is getting out of the U.S. by…
Previously in Everybody has Two Family Trees…which in hind sight, I should have called “Revenge of the Undying Machine”. I went through some of the back story of how, while I was hunting down the Thompson Elmores, I was also…
Everyone has two family trees. One is a paper trail tree. That tree lives in documentation, court records, land ownership, family bibles and the almighty census. The other tree is a genetic tree, built from the DNA of your…
AncestryDNA seems to be the hotspot for matches for me right now, but I’m still digging up things at 23 and me as well. Another Elmore Match at AncestryDNA I had another fairly large match come in at AncestryDNA. A…