Genealogy

This month has actually been pretty active for DNA cousins, I had one of my cousins pop up, they are actually my half 1st cousin but in my family we don’t really use “half”. I also had the child of one of my cousins pop up, again they are half relation but we don’t use… Read more: Half Cousins galore!

Ancestry has really been on my last nerves for a while now. They did an update a while back where you can’t view your DNA relatives in common with someone or view their tree unless you have an active subscription, and I find that move left a sour taste in my mouth. Even without a… Read more: Ancestry Pro Tools

If there is one ancestor who has evaded all my research skills it is my 2x great grandmother Sarah Holm, the amount of evidence !i have that Sarah did exist is very minimal, five pieces of primary records, I have tried to look forward but couldn’t find her in any record after 1920, I have… Read more: Finding Sarah Holm

The tree was no help because everyone up to grandparents was Private so I had no clues to go by but this was a mystery I was determined to solve.

Recently I was able to fit a missing piece into my puzzle thanks to a stranger on FamilySearch. For so many years I’ve been searching for proof that my great aunt Agnes Bastian was the daughter of Casper and the full sister of Ann Loratia Bastian but that pesky baptism record eluded me for so… Read more: Agnes Ancita Bastian

It depends. In my father’s case, because he was adopted and we don’t know much about his family, matches on the X are pretty helpful for me. In my case they aren’t very useful because I have two Xs and any match on my X will need thorough research to figure out which side of… Read more: Is knowing your Maternal Haplogroup helpful?

I literally just received my Ancestry results and already they have been updated. If you hadn’t read my post talking about my Ancestry DNA results you can find them here My Ancestry DNA Results! Now let’s get into my new percentages and whatnot, but first what is Ancestry SideView? Ancestry SideView is simply Ancestry trying… Read more: New Ancestry DNA update plus SideView

Have I just found Christina Chamberlain’s mother? That is the question that I am currently asking myself, have I in fact discovered the mother and sibling of Christina Chamberlain right there in a Census document that I have looked at several times before? The document in question is the 1870 Danish West Indies Census, here… Read more: Family Hidden in Plain View

On March 5 I finally sent in my Ancestry DNA kit and anxiously waited on the results. So many things went through my head, but my biggest concern was “what if it failed?”. A valid concern since my 23andme test failed the first time, my fears were unfounded this time as my DNA Results were… Read more: My Ancestry DNA Results!

My Great Grandmother on my father’s maternal side was Valderia Eugenie Petersen, she was the daughter of Maud Hines and George Petersen. I know a lot about Val’s mother and her mother’s maternal family but her father was a mystery because all I had was his name. The only reason I even knew his name… Read more: Breaking a 16-year brick wall – George Petersen

I know I am late to talk about this but that’s because I’ve been waiting to see if they were doing staggered updates. It seems that everyone who was going to receive this update already received it. If you have no idea what I’m talking about back in January 23andMe added new Ethnolinguistic Groups to… Read more: 23andMe – New African Groups Added to Ancestry Composition

Almost everyone knows about Ancestry when it comes to Genealogy but did you know you can find your ancestors without having to pay? Are there really free Genealogy sites? This is a question I’ve seen asked by people new to Genealogy all the time, if you are one of these people I’m going to give… Read more: Getting started with Genealogy

At the end of October, I received from one of my sisters by way of an aunt who got them from my step-grandmother the baptism records for not only my grandfather but also two of his sisters. This was like a gift from the universe because I had pretty much given up on this side… Read more: Another piece to the puzzle

In June my father received a request to share DNA and this isn’t anything new or special because some people do request to share so they can compare their results with yours, I’ve done this myself so I accepted the request but the person that requested the share was surprising. This DNA relative was predicted… Read more: From Africa to the Caribbean: Links To Our Past

So many times I’ve been asked if I prefer Ancestry or 23andme and which one would be the best to buy. In answer to the first, personally, I prefer 23andme. In answer to the second, it depends. Ancestry is always touted as being the best but for who? People with ancestry that is mainly from… Read more: The Reasons why I prefer 23andme over Ancestry DNA

I wrote about Joseph Boldt before in this post and this one as well. Since those posts, I have done a lot more fact-checking and some stuff is just not accurate anymore. Genealogy as you might not know is very fluid and things you thought you had checked and double-checked could always use a triple… Read more: Who are you? Joseph Boldt

I was thinking how crazy it is that I began my genealogy journey in 2006, that’s 14 years ago, way older than my oldest child. I was barely a child myself, 19 years old and I had no clue what I was doing. I just jumped on Ancestry and started putting in names my parents… Read more: Finding My Roots In The Caribbean

Hey Everyone! I don’t remember if I spoke about my Saint-Barthélemy project on Wikitree before but I have one. Which you can view here. It’s basically me researching and talking about the history of the island and its people because my Father’s paternal side of the family is from there. The funny thing about Saint-Barthélemy… Read more: My Saint-Barthélemy Genealogy Project

I don’t know if I ever mentioned before that I took a DNA test with 23andMe on here but I took one back in June 2018. The main reason I took it was to discover who my father’s family was, my father was adopted when he was young, and while we knew the names of… Read more: 23andme: My Changing Ancestry Composition