This morning I watched the online streaming video of the Ancestry.com panel at RootsTech. The format of the panel was conversational between President & CEO Tim Sullivan and other leaders within the company. We all learned of some exciting developments in the pipeline for features to come at Ancestry.com – all of which will be […]
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This is a photo of the envelope that my uncle Stanley (1950-2010) sent to my grandmother back in 1984. This letter is notable because Stanley was a “wanderer.” He would leave New York and go travel and the family would never really know where he was at. His return address here is “On the
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Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun exercise tonight is as follows: Find a living male person in your database from your maternal grandfather’s patrilineal line who could take a Y-DNA test. Then, we are tasked to answer several questions. Here are my responses – fortunately, this was a very easy topic for me given all the testing
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Well, parts of it anyway. 🙂 This week, the 23andMe DNA Roots Into the Future results came back for one of my mother’s paternal 1st cousins. A great advantage of her having done the test is that I can now begin to establish segments of my mother’s DNA that comes from her paternal grandparents, Lewis
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With the New Year comes another new involvement for me — I’ve been asked by Randy Whited, a Director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS), to join the FGS Education Committee! I was honored to be asked and of course had to accept. 🙂 The FGS Education Committee produces the weekly FGS radio show
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With the new year, I am planning to do more blog posts for Amy Coffin’s 52 Weeks series. This is now week #3 and the topic is “Free Online Genealogy Tools.” Specifically, Free online genealogy tools are like gifts from above. Which one are you most thankful for? How has it helped your family history
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Almost a year ago to date, I shared a quest I embarked upon to find a picture of Dwight Hillis Wilson, a former archivist at Fisk University. The Society of American Archivists was looking for a picture of him for a set of trading cards they were putting together in honor of the organization’s 75th
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I have had the most fabulous few days in that I have had several cousin connections! I can’t even begin to go in-depth on all of them, but in brief: a third cousin of mine, Nafeesah, emailed me after searching online for more information about her family and finding my family genealogy site. She and
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I have a goal to do a DNA comparison test this month. There are two individuals I want to test so that I can find out if they descend from the same male ancestor – one is black (Person A) and one is white (Person B). My primary genealogical research leads me to believe there
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I am elated to share another cousin match story from my 23andMe results! This time it’s even more interesting because said cousin (i”ll call her DK) has been following my blog for several months, saw my posts about the free 23andMe testing, and ordered her kit because of it. But, while she knew she was
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