Last updated: April 22, 2025 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...
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...
When it comes to setting DNA testing goals for family history, you have to know your limitations. You want realistic expectations! Increasingly, the list of what DNA testing CAN’T do is getting shorter. But there is still a list. Here it is. What DNA Alone Can’t Do...
“Who’s your great-granddaddy?” It’s a genetic genealogy game show! DNA can help you ask “contestants” whether they could be your mysterious ancestor. Yet another way to build your family tree through DNA testing. When doing genealogy research,...
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...
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