Who’s Your Daddy, Harold Alfred Thompson?

I blog about DNA quite regularly, but it’s usually about the mystery on my mom’s side of the family. I call that mystery the Beaton/Batten Mystery. But today, I want … Continue Reading →

Ancestry’s NEW Ethnicity Inheritance – SideView™

This morning Ancestry launched it’s newest feature for DNA, and I was super excited to be given access before launch. It’s called Ethnicity Inheritance using SideView technology. Continue Reading →

My Five Favorite RootsTech 2022 Presentations

With over 1500 sessions at the 2022 RootsTech site, it’s hard to choose which ones I like the most. But recently, I was asked about my top five sessions that … Continue Reading →

More Hound Treats

From time to time, I will create these collections of things that I think you might find of interest. I call them Hound Treats. Recently I chaired my Edmonton Branch … Continue Reading →

Hound Treats

So many things are happening this week that I thought I’d pass along some of the things you might be interested in. Planning a Genealogy Road Trip First of all, … Continue Reading →

Get Ready For RootsTech 2022

There are a few days until RootsTech 2022, so you have time to get ready and plan the things you’d like to watch during the event March 3-5th.

The RootsTech 2022 website is live, so you can now go through the entire list of 1,500 sessions on 185 topics in over 30 languages and create your playlist so that you can go back to it when it’s “live” or whenever you’d like in the next year. Yes, the presentation will be available in the future. Continue Reading →

Playing With New MyHeritage Tools

I wanted to spend a couple of minutes showing you a few new features that MyHeritage recently launched. Continue Reading →

The Gift of MyHeritage DNA

(For a limited time, MyHeritage offers special holiday gift wrapping for just $3 more. Find out more HERE.) Do you have a person on your gift-giving list that’s tough to … Continue Reading →

Four Things I’m Doing To Break My Brick Wall

So I thought of four things that I’m going to do to help me with my brick wall, and I wanted to share them with you. Even if it doesn’t help my research, I’m hoping they might help you. Continue Reading →

The Beaton/Batten Mystery – What’s New?

If you’re on Facebook, then you know that each day you get memories of posts you’ve done in years gone by. Some from last year and others from as far … Continue Reading →