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…
This year marks 100 years of being Thompsons for my branch of the family. It’s 15 years of keeping this online diary. My son who was just three years old when I started this, is eighteen now. Many of the…
Old Norse Specialist Jackson Crawford I’ve listened to a lot of Jackson Crawford videos over the past several years. If you’re interested in the sagas and the eddas, or the differences between old Norse and other Germanic languages, you should…
The End My dad Tom died on June 27th 2025 from complications due to liver disease. The story is that he was exposed to chemicals at work that damaged his liver and so the clock has been ticking since then.…
My Grandfather’s birthday is 49 years and six days before mine. In my early memory, we celebrated our birthdays together. We shared a birth month, and I inherited his lazy eye, which left me with an eye patch and corrective…
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’ve watched a few videos and read a few papers that help explain the movement of autosomal DNA and MTDNA in a way that makes sense and seems obvious once someone says it. It’s also meshed to the origins of…
In 2010, I started an online diary for my family search, which had been thwarted by a lack of basic information and resources but was about to get easier due to the proliferation of internet content and genetic genealogy. Conveniently,…
Here in the U.S., it’s Thanksgiving. For many people, that means a lot of good food and time spent with family. Where I am in Michigan, there is light snow on the ground. Thanksgiving is an American holiday, peculiar to…