#RootsTech 2019

(Read to the end to find out how you can win a RootsTech  Feb. 27–Mar. 2, 2019 4-Day Conference Pass) As many of you know RootsTech is one of my favorite … Continue Reading →

Black Friday And The World Goes A Bit Crazy

If you look up Black Friday on Wikipedia you’ll see that it says that the earliest known use of “Black Friday” to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurred in the … Continue Reading →

Exciting News From MyHeritage Live

My husband; Kevin and I just got back from Oslo, Norway where we attended the first MyHeritage Live. We arrived on November 1st after a 16-hour trek from Edmonton to Toronto, … Continue Reading →

It’s Halloween And Time For A Spooky Tale

It’s October 31, 2018, and Halloween;  also known as All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, which is a celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows’ … Continue Reading →

Two New Tools In Your AncestryDNA Arsenal

Anytime you get new tools for your DNA toolbox is a great day and this week was no exception. Earlier this week I noticed something on my AncestryDNA account that … Continue Reading →

20 More Questions About Your Ancestors and Maybe A Few About You

October is Family History Month and I thought we’d continue with 20 more questions about your ancestors and even a few about you. If you recall it was just over … Continue Reading →

Did Your Ethnicity Change at AncestryDNA? Mine Did!

A couple of weeks ago you may have noticed that there was a change in your AncestryDNA ethnicity. Or maybe you haven’t checked lately and it’s sitting there waiting for … Continue Reading →

Three Tools That Keep Me From Going Crazy

I had a man ask me a couple of weeks ago; “How do you do keep up with all the things you do”?  Sometimes I wonder that myself. So I … Continue Reading →

Getting A Little Help From My Family’s DNA Kits

On Sunday I took a few minutes to catch up on the blog written by Living DNA.  Their blog dated; August 30th consisted of some product updates which I found … Continue Reading →

I Did Something to my 23andMe Account That I May Regret

You know me, I’m a bit of a DNA nut. I’ve tested with every DNA company that you can test with. It all started with Family Tree DNA (they were … Continue Reading →