The online obituary for a distant relative included a comment section. Fairly typical stuff. In reading the comments, I noticed that a neighbor had referred to she and her husband as the man’s aunt and uncle. Knowing the family genealogy of the deceased relatively well and being somewhat familiar with that of the neighbor as […]

This session assumes listeners/attendees have a basic understanding of what AncestryDNA offers, how to navigate their AncestryDNA matches, how to track working with their matches, what shared matches are and are not, and have already done some work with with their AncestryDNA matches–at least having worked through their first/second cousins matches at least once to […]

I maintain the following genealogy blogs: Rootdig.com—Michael’s thoughts, research problems, suggestions, and whatever else crosses his desk Genealogy Tip of the Day—one genealogy research tip every day–short and to the point Genealogy Search Tip—websites I’ve discovered and the occasional online research tip–short and to the point? Subscription/Unsubscription links are on the top of each page. […]