Let me tell you something. You can spend hours and hours pouring over census documents, birth records, death records, marriage records, baptisms, burials and more to retrieve the most basic of information about your ancestors. You’ll learn their birth years, how big their families were, what they did for a living, where they lived and …
Hi there. I know exactly how frustrated you feel. This virus is wreaking mayhem across the entire globe, and disrupting everything and everyone in our day to day lives. The vast majority of us are now stuck at home with our kids for a number of weeks in order to practice social distancing to avoid …
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Recently I took the Ancestry DNA test (read about my experience here), and it showed some surprising results. I originally wasn't going to take it for a few reasons, but I'm really glad I did. Now that I've had some time to go over my results, I'd like to share what I now know about …
I've wanted to do the Ancestry DNA test forever. I've been extensively researching my family for over five years, and I've hit a few brick walls. They're due to many different factors such as surname changes, lack of digitized records and language barriers. After months of frustration I figured, why not? Let's do the test. …
Genealogy is a tough hobby. You finally think you've nailed down a certain branch of your family and poof a mystery child appears. Where in the world did the mystery child come from? It's so frustrating. Sometimes secrets the dead keep are better left buried. For those secrets that are bursting to come out (see …
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