by Sunny Morton | Apr 28, 2022 | Family Tree Basics - DNA
A MyHeritage free trial subscription can jump-start your family tree, introduce you to new DNA matches, and help you decide if a MyHeritage membership is right for you. Follow these 8 strategies for success with your free trial. When you activate a MyHeritage free...
by Diahan Southard | May 6, 2021 | Working with DNA matches
Your generation of connection is key to learning how you’re related to your DNA matches. It’s where you’ll find your most recent common ancestor(s) (MRCA). You and your match may have two DIFFERENT generations of connection. Don’t worry, we’ve got an easy explanation!...
by Sunny Morton | Jan 14, 2021 | Family Tree Basics - DNA
Harvest information from public family trees to help your mystery DNA matches bear fruit! Here’s how to search tree data on Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, FamilySearch and other major family tree websites. For a successful DNA matching experience, you need to attach the...
by Sunny Morton | Dec 17, 2020 | Family Tree Basics - DNA
Finding all children of an ancestral couple can help you build a DNA-friendly family tree for your DNA matching experience. Use this collateral research strategy on Ancestry.com, FamilySearch or MyHeritage. A couple years ago, my friend (let’s call him Steve) got a...
by Sunny Morton | Dec 3, 2020 | Genetic genealogy tools
Here’s how adoptees and others searching for birth families can use both DNA testing and the free WikiTree genealogy website to help reconstruct their biological family trees. Thanks to Emma MacBeath and Chris Whitten for co-authoring this guest article. See their...
