by Kathie Knoll | Mar 11, 2021 | DNA testing stories
Learning about her father’s birth family led to his adoptive family—and his own childhood. Thanks to DNA testing for family history and some diligent genealogy research, now she knows more about his TWO families. Since childhood, Cheryl knew her father was adopted—and... 
by Diahan Southard | Feb 8, 2021 | DNA testing for beginners
How you’re related to your DNA matches is increasingly possible to puzzle out in 2021! Here are tools at 23andMe, AncestryDNA, Family Tree DNA, Living DNA and MyHeritage to help you build your family tree with genetic genealogy. Online tools for helping identify your... 
by Diahan Southard | Nov 5, 2020 | Working with DNA matches
What can you do with more distant DNA matches, with whom you share fewer centimorgans and with whom a common ancestor isn’t apparent? Diahan Southard says to consider these three things. Recently I received a great question from Ellen: ”I have several matches where... 
by Jayne Ekins | Aug 13, 2020 | DNA testing news
A veteran in the genetic genealogy industry looks back at the history of DNA testing for family history–and to the future: the reconstruction of the entire human family tree. A quick history of DNA testing for family history In the late 1990s and early 2000s,... 
by Diahan Southard | Apr 16, 2020 | DNA testing stories
Here’s how one person is using DNA + genealogy research to discover the identities of her biological grandparents. She’s faced with a common DNA question: Which daughter in a family was the biological mother? Recently I’ve been working with Libby, who has been seeking...
