Fortify Your Family Tree

I love when someone contacts me about my family tree. Some tell me they're getting tons of hints from my family tree. Others say their a...

I've had tons of success identifying and learning important facts from my DNA matches. Here are 4 articles featuring the most successful...

As I've explained to death , I'm fitting every vital record from my hometowns into one huge family tree. (See " Why Your Half 4...

I've just finished the second of my most ambitious genealogy research projects. I created inventories of available vital records from m...

Another day, another look at my mom's DNA match list. This time I wanted to find the first still-unknown person in her list worth resear...

I've recently added more than a thousand people to my family tree from one town—Pesco Sannita, Italy. And I've barely begun to harve...

When your family tree is always on your mind, inspiration waits around every corner. This week I found 3 sources of inspiration while going ...

Ten years ago I asked my parents to take a DNA test. I told them it would help me see whether my matches were on mom's side or dad's...

When shopping for a new home, you have to look past the dirty carpet to envision what the house can be. That's true in genealogy researc...

Last week's article on sorting your DNA matches by grandparent branch was a big hit. Thank you for reading it! Since that DNA exercise ...

If it's at all possible, get your close relatives to take a DNA test that you will manage. Choose someone from your maternal and paterna...