I’m getting close to “done” with this first attempt at a family history book. My “small” project is about 3-400 pages at this point. I’ve focused mainly on the family groups and gone back 6 generations – which gets to the last generation that was alive around 1850. I still…

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Now that I’ve played around with the DNA features that several different companies have to offer, I think I can give some good advice. The most interesting part of doing the DNA test, for me, has been finding some distant cousins and adding new generations to my family tree. There…

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Have you found a lot of DNA matches? I’ve done Ancestry and 23&Me DNA tests and both companies have found 10s of thousands of DNA matches for me. But who are they? And what do they tell me about my family history? I got lucky and matched a few close…

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I’m planning a trip to visit my dad for his birthday. There will be some family there and I want to share what I’ve discovered so far with them. Organizing the family history was one of the things mom and I talked about a lot, but neither of us had…

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A time machine. Whatever terms you need. I could stay invisible like a ghost so I can’t change anything, for example. I’d like to be able to see first hand what was happening in some of these families so I could answer some questions. Did Betty have an affair, or…

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