Buy Local, Support Your Neighbor Businesses and Farms ~ And there are a bunch of us small, and not so small local folks to support!

Look around where you live and find your local businesses. In the midst of this pandemic this is such a great idea! Share information about them with the community via Facebook pages and any social media. Let's help our local small businesses - now more than ever. Here is just one buy local page for … Continue reading Buy Local, Support Your Neighbor Businesses and Farms ~ And there are a bunch of us small, and not so small local folks to support!

Buy Local, Support Your Neighbor Businesses and Farms ~ And there are a bunch of us small, and not so small local folks to support!

2022 Support Your Local Businesses PREVIOUS YEARS of Support Your Local Businesses We just add more - year after year With the shut downs, so many businesses are hurting like their employees. We need to look around our neighborhoods and see where we can help. Who is open for take out? Who needs to know … Continue reading Buy Local, Support Your Neighbor Businesses and Farms ~ And there are a bunch of us small, and not so small local folks to support!

DNA for genealogy tourism ~ very personal pilgrimages. Croatia and other wonders!

DNA-for-genealogy, along with family history and herstory, became the focus of my research. And I came to realize we are all made up of multiple people. Even folks in remote places, whose ancestors have long been all in one place, turn out to be an intricate mixture of a few or many peoples. All of … Continue reading DNA for genealogy tourism ~ very personal pilgrimages. Croatia and other wonders!

OK, The DNA does not match and now you have lost 1/8th (or more) of your ancestry. ~ How To!

Just because we have our "paper" well documented, does not mean we have our ancestors. DNA-for-genealogy is teaching us that many lines in even the most respectable families have had one or more "non-paternity events" (mis-attributed parentage) some time in the past. DNA testing might disprove some of our most cherished ancestral lines, but the … Continue reading OK, The DNA does not match and now you have lost 1/8th (or more) of your ancestry. ~ How To!

Bloody Cheats ~ Photo Discovery? or Every Pirated Photo Uploaded

So I get an email from My Heritage. Excitement - they have great photos of people in my tree and if I want to see the full photo I can upgrade my account - pay money. So if I pay them to upgrade I will get to see my own photos that I uploaded to … Continue reading Bloody Cheats ~ Photo Discovery? or Every Pirated Photo Uploaded