Do you use AncestryDNA’s Common Ancestors feature? If so, how do your results stack up to mine?
Author: Melody Lassalle
Genealogist and writer. Creator of the Portuguese Hawaiian Genealogy and Heritage website, yourislandroutes.com
Florinda Made It To Hawaii After All: A DNA Success Story
Years ago, I came across a passport entry for a family emigrating to Hawaii. It was for my great grandfather’s cousin, Florinda. I combed through Hawaiian records looking for a trace of Florinda, but never found one. I gave up and moved on. Years later, I got some DNA matches pointing to Pacheco cousins in…
Do Our Ancestors Send Us Signs? The Curious Coincidence Of The Blooming Flower
My sister gave my mom a plant a couple of years ago, an Antherium. You know, the one with the heart shaped flower. We had it on the kitchen counter under the skylight and it thrived. It bloomed repeatedly until my mom died. One Of The Most Satisfying Flowering Plants I don’t know if you’ve…
Welcome Back: Returning to Your Childhood Home
You may have wondered what the heck happened to me the last couple of months. I’ve wondered the same thing myself at times. I was in the process of packing up a lifetime of memories, mine and my mom’s. She passed away last September and the home we shared together was being sold. This leads…
What I Learned About MyHeritageDNA’s AutoClusters Report
I sat in on Legacy Family Trees webinar “Visualizing Ancestral Lines With DNA AutoClusters” with Ran Snir. It covered how to use the tool on MyHeritage for narrowing down which line your matches may descend from. The webinar was very informative and I feel I understand AutoClusters much more than I did initially. AutoClusters Are…