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 …
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 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 …
Hi Project Members: In this post I have information about FTDNA’s annual Christmas Seasonal Sale and discount coupons. I will also talk about different types of tests, so, be sure to read this and subsequent posts as I will be disseminating new information about tests and things about your …
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays Everyone! Below I have listed some coupon Discount Codes for this weeks FTDNA Holiday Sale. Please check your own Personal Page to view your own coupon. If it does not do what you want, come to this page and find one that will help. Also, if you …
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!! Family Tree DNA is in the second week of their annual Holiday sale, the best time of the year to dive in or expand your DNA repertoire. They currently have some great sale prices and offer, in addition to the sale prices, coupons for even more off. …
Note: This is the First Part of a Two Part Post. Following is a link to Part 2: http://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com/brick-wall-broken-by-shared-dna-part-2/ (Note: Hopefully, you have read my 4 Part blog called Shared Chromosomes. If not, I suggest doing so after reading this success story. It will guide you through the methodology …