AncestryDNA Updates Coming: What To Do Next

AncestryDNA Updates Coming: What To Do Next

AncestryDNA has exciting updates coming for your DNA matches experience. Here’s what’s happening and what to do now to prepare for it. AncestryDNA’s tools that help you understand your relationships to your DNA matches are among their most important—and they’re about...
Disproving a DNA Claim

Disproving a DNA Claim

Is it possible to disprove someone’s claim of a DNA relationship? Here’s some advice from genetic genealogist Diahan Southard. While doing a Legacy Family Tree Webinar series recently, I received the following question from Jim: “I’m trying to learn a little...
Racism and DNA

Racism and DNA

Here’s how DNA can help combat racist thinking—along with my thoughts on my family’s journey out of racism and why trying to be “colorblind” doesn’t help. My grandmother, whom I loved, was a racist. My mother had fierce feelings that were just the opposite. I remember...
What Is CODIS?

What Is CODIS?

What is CODIS and who can use it for forensic genealogy and DNA matching? Here are answers. The popular ABC series Genetic Detective is helping popularize the work of genetic genealogy. But just as many watching are probably wondering “What is genealogy?” (I just...