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Digging up my roots!
Category: DNA
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Proving the parentage of Cynthia (Day) Bursley
This past Saturday I was inducted into the Cooch’s Bridge Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. It was overwhelmingly wonderful and quite surreal, and the culmination of nearly thirty years of research into my Bursley family. It would never have been possible without the collaboration with my third and…
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Using DNA to answer: ARE YOU MY (great great great great grand-) MOTHER?
In 2010 I took my first autosomal DNA test through FTDNA. I quickly discovered the frustration of autosomal DNA testing. 1) Autosomal DNA provides no hints as to what part of your family tree your match comes from. Given that we each have 64 fourth great grandparents, 128 fifth great grandparents and so on, it…
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Ancestry.com autosomal DNA test debunks Native American family legend
FINALLY! I’ve been very disappointed in autosomal DNA testing…that is, until this month. Ninety-eight percent of the “matches” have been so distant, or have not had enough work done on their family trees, that there has been no way to know how we connect, if, in fact, we do at all. Until now, the only…
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Are you have problems with Ancestry.com’s DNA portal?
Are you having issues with Ancestry’s DNA portal? About a week ago I received an email with a notice stating that I have three new matches. However, when I try to access them, I keep getting the above message. Hmmm….sure hoping it resolves soon. I’m trying to be patient!
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My AncestryDNA match
When I took the Ancestry.com autosomal DNA test, I was mostly interested in confirming my genetic ethnicity. An added bonus was my recent connection to a distant cousin – my first definite DNA match. While I didn’t learn anything new from my newly found cousin (I was able to fill in quite a few holes…
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Ancestry.com autosomal DNA test – Part II
Family trees are full of mysteries. The one thing we can be sure that we know is that there is a lot that we DON’T know! 🙂 That’s a good reason to have a DNA test done. Hopefully it will help link us to others who DO know something about lines we are researching. Sometimes,…
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My (free) Ancestry.com DNA results – a comparison to FamilyTreeDNA
It seems like an eternity ago I received an email from Ancestry.com offering me a free autosomal DNA test. (Still don’t know why I was selected…were all Ancestry.com subscribers offered the free DNA testing or only their most neurotic users that spend most of their non-working, waking hours searching family history?) I immediately signed…
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