In October, AncestryDNA added a new feature building off its SideView Chart. It can now sort your matches into maternal and paternal sides of your tree. It’s taken me awhile to play with the feature and these are my impressions. First off, this is what SideView looks like. I’m fortunate that my parents had very…
Tag: Genetic Genealogy
How I Knocked Down My Longest Standing Genealogy Brick Wall: DNA, Collaboration, Documents, And Luck
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…
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…
How Many Common Ancestor Do You Have On Ancestry?
Do you use AncestryDNA’s Common Ancestors feature? If so, how do your results stack up to mine?
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…