To successfully contact DNA matches, here’s EXACTLY what one researcher did. The outcome (spoiler alert!) included actually MEETING some of her newfound Jewish and Eastern European cousins. Julie wrote me a while back to report a successful experience with contacting...
What is a genetic network? Here’s how genetic networks apply to your DNA matches and how they can topple your genealogy brick walls by finding your missing ancestors and solving family history mysteries! Why do people (especially science people) use big words to...
Last updated: January 13, 2025 Each testing company has a different way to show you how you’re related to your DNA matches. Here’s how to find that information at AncestryDNA, Family Tree DNA, Living DNA, MyHeritage and 23andMe. Online tools for...
Last updated: October 30, 2024 We explain what AncestryDNA’s ancestral journeys and ancestral regions are, and how they can help you understand your ancestral heritage. Editor’s note: This blog post was originally published on February 1, 2021, and...
When I heard my mom, an adoptee, telling her story on the Who Am I Really? podcast, I realized the importance of telling your DNA story in your own voice. I have told my story about finding my mom’s birth family dozens of times. I have shared it in lectures, in...
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