A second very essential tool everyone should have is their Ancestral Surnames and Locations. These surnames and places give matches a sense of genealogical history of their matches and can help tell the match how the two are matching. To add Surnames and Locations to your page, go to your …
You may “join” as many projects as you wish. Some project administrators, however, place restrictions on who joins or due to the type of project they administer. Some projects are surname only, or location only or by some other criteria established by the administrator. Our project is open to anyone …
One tool helpful to members of groups that not many people may not realize is there is an Advanced Matching Tool. This tool is found on your personal page on the right side of the Family Finder Section, assuming you have taken the Family Finder. Click on Advanced Search. Choose …
On your Match page of Family Finder you can click on anyone you wish. Then, click on “ ICW” link at the top of the page. The database will give you all persons who match you AND the match on who’s name you clicked. BUT….the database is just saying you …
Want to take half of the speculation out of HOW your matches match you? You have a couple thousand or hundreds of matches. Which ones are on your paternal side and which ones are on your maternal side? This tool will help you immensely. BUT…..For this you will have to …
You’ll have some close matches but most will be more distant. Sometimes you can figure out how you match your matches and in other cases, most, in fact, you’ll have no idea whatsoever how you match. While looking at your matches, look at their trees and also look at …
I am the administrator of several DNA Projects at Family Tree DNA. Today I was looking at some of the statistics of each of the projects and noticed quite a few members in each project have taken various portions of Mt-DNA but only about half of those testers have taken …
I have tested with FTDNA, Anestry and 23 and Me. Several years ago 23 and me decided they would outsource their trees with MyHeritage. So, I uploaded a tree there via GEDCOM. My tree apparently was more than the “Free Tree” allowed and I never could figure out how to …
Roberta Estes is a prolific blogger. If you do not subscribe to her blogs, you should. One of her recent blogs gives an down to earth explaination of the Big Y test and why men should take it or women have their men take it. Holiday Coupons and Why …
As genetic genealogists and family historians we constantly deal with dead people- our ancestors. What we usually don’t do, however, is consider our own mortality. That is one thing for certain that we will never get out of this world alive. But, what happens when we do die? One of …