My Family DNA Ancestry Research

I've been in my new home now for 3 weeks, and despite not having the place fully furnished yet (thank you again, COVID-19!), I more or...

Today marks 1 week since I made the move to Port Hope, a tranquil town on the north shore of Lake Ontario. Port Hope has the distinction...

In the decades that I've been documenting my family tree, I have discovered several people that are what I call "double cousins". What do...

Tracing your family roots can be a fun and personally fulfilling adventure, but it can also be a journey littered with road blocks,...

Between shovelling snow, packing up my house and looking for a new career, I've somehow managed to do some work on my family tree. In the...

Reviewing historical data is a significant part of researching your family history. In the not so distant past, this involved finding and...

Several years ago I took my first DNA test through Ancestry.com. The test was a mitochondrial test which means that it took both my...

2022 marks the 20th year that I have been researching my family's history. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was going through a box...

I have been hosting my family tree with Ancestry.com and on this personal website now for quite some time, yet I often wonder if anyone...

Tracking your family history beyond your 2 or 3 times great-grandparents can be a daunting task, especially if you want to include...