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