You may have seen me refer to what a pain in the butt my great grandfather, Harry Kenneth Jackson, has been to research in my article “Harry Jackson, I Need To Talk To You“. I’ve been trying to figure out who his parents were and where he was from for decades without any luck. Spots…
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The Missing Piece Is A Wonderful Story
Many of us have sent in DNA samples in hopes of finding a 3rd cousin or breaking a brick wall. What if you were abandoned as a child and you just wanted to know where you came from and if you had any family out there? That’s the backdrop of the short documentary film “The…
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…
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…
My 4th Great Grandfather Remarried: A DNA Success Story
You think you know everything about your family tree. Then, a DNA match comes along and a new story unravels. It was through a DNA match that I discovered my 4th great grandfather, Jose Pacheco, had two families. After 30 years of research, I still have discoveries to make. My DNA Match Reveals A Second…