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...
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...
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...
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,...
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 in our Coaching...
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