Want to get your money's worth out of your DNA test? Build up your tree.When I look at my long list of DNA matches, most of them fall into the 4th-6th cousin level and further. You connect to your 4th...
Your All-in-One Family Tree Clean-up List
Use this checklist of 7 tasks to scrub your family tree clean.I want to help you make your family tree better and more professional. That's why I've been writing these genealogy articles twice a week...
How to Become a Genealogy Document Expert
It's the same way you get to Carnegie Hall. Practice, practice, practice.Guess what happened after I spent hours and hours reading vital records from the 1800s. I became something of an expert on the...
Use Cousin Baiting to Expand Your Family Tree
A new cousin took the bait and contacted me with details about his branch.Filling out the branches of your family tree will help attract more cousins.You know those long ancestral scrolls you see on the...
How to Find Your Strongest DNA Matches
So many DNA matches. How can you decide where to start?DNA tools are on the rise, promising to help us make sense of our growing lists of DNA matches. This week I decided to try out DNA Painter and see...
Don't Give Up When Your DNA Match Has a Puny Little Family Tree
You've got new DNA matches. And their trees are bare. Where do you start?On Saturday I took a look at my growing list of DNA matches on Ancestry.com. There were so many I hadn't reviewed at all. I chose...
How One Clue After Another Broke Down My Brick Wall
My closest ancestors were the hardest to find. Who would've expected so many twists and turns?My maternal grandmother's family is the one my mother grew up with. Most of them are the family I grew up...
6 Places to Discover Your Ancestor's Town of Birth
Your ancestor's exact place of birth is critical. You won't get far without it.Question: What's the difference between:a family tree that stretches back 10 generations, andone that goes back 3 generations?Answer:...
How to Create a 'Book of Life' for Your Relatives
You already have the materials to make this most personal gift for someone you love.Have you been watching Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s "Finding Your Roots" on PBS? It's bursting with the type of excitement...
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