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 →
Category: Knowledge is Power
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 →
A Cup Of USB Sticks
How many of you have a cup full like this one? Or perhaps you don’t even have them in a cup. Are they just here and there around the house? What treasured documents and photos are stored on them? Did you know that USB sticks have a life expectancy? It’s actually about five years. Continue Reading →
What Can You Learn About Your Ancestors in Newspapers?
One of the things I’ve learned doing genealogy is that your family doesn’t have to be famous or infamous to be in the newspaper.
But what can you learn from newspapers? I can think of at least five things you might learn from them. Continue Reading →
Ancestry Canada Provides Free Access To Military Records
I received this info from Ancestry yesterday and didn’t want you to miss out on this opportunity to check these FREE records. Leading up to Remembrance Day, Ancestry Canada is … Continue Reading →
Bravo FamilySearch Bravo
Four years ago, in 2017, FamilySearch announced that it would no longer have microfilm distribution. I remember at the time, there was an outcry from the genealogy community. This was … Continue Reading →
Search the Freedmen’s Bureau Collection for Free At Ancestry
When it comes to genealogy, who doesn’t like the word FREE? Today Ancestry launched free access to the Freedmen’s Bureau records. If you haven’t heard about these records, then you … Continue Reading →
Ancestry’s New T&C – It’s Been a Roller Coaster Ride For A Few Days
On August 4th, I woke up to a blog like many of you did from Judy Russell, The Legal Genealogist. She had taken the time to read the new Terms … Continue Reading →
How Will You Celebrate Food Day Canada?
July 31st is Food Day Canada, and I’m thinking about how I might celebrate.
mom was going to have a get-together, he could have invited twenty people off the road because there was always too much food.
DNA (My mtDNA to be exact)
The other day I received a kit from Family Tree DNA for the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) test that I’d purchased, and this reminded me that I have really posted about DNA lately.
On April 22nd, I ordered an mtDNA test from Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) for myself. It was the one DNA test I hadn’t done on my mom’s DNA, primarily because I didn’t think it would help me much with my genealogy and because I knew that I could do the test on my own DNA any time I’d like. Continue Reading →