Its embarrassing, and it illustrates how the ancestral trees can be worthless, no matter what database.

And laziness begat disregard for the truth. Add anyone. Oh it "must" be them. No one can prove it wrong. The dilemma of copying trees. Genealogy is hard work. All research is hard work. Multiple sources are needed for an assertion of any event - birth, marriage, death, date of founding, name, full name, name … Continue reading Its embarrassing, and it illustrates how the ancestral trees can be worthless, no matter what database.

Cherie Lynn’s Lewis Collection – John Lewis of Page’s Warehouse, & Old Hanover Court House & his son David Lewis with the 1st land patent west of the Rivanna river

The David Lewis of Charlottesville Family and his father and family John Lewis of Hanover and Wales and brother Abraham of Hanover and Pennsylvania.

OK, ftDNA has put together a really fun feature for y-DNA

I love it. It has the giggle-while-the-hair-stands-up-on-the-back-of-your-head genealogy rush of fun. And it does not stop there. These readings of a man's y-DNA haplogroup provide fun facts and are understood to be fun facts, only. As with all the bells and whistles of the genetic genealogy that we love to bits, I always say, "If … Continue reading OK, ftDNA has put together a really fun feature for y-DNA

Reminder: Always get at least two sources. The Social Security Application

The applications are easy to order and inexpensive (Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request link below) as records go, and for me I had hoped for clues also to find anything on my grandfather's father. But the applications are a document that will have the precious signature of the applicant - priceless!

Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.

- A Herstory Guest - I hope my readers will help me welcome our guest blogger, one of my Knight cousins, Charlotte. Her trees and work can be found on ancestry.com and familysearch.org, all the usual places, but with a very special and not so usual story of her Knight ancestry. She has been a … Continue reading Here’s Why We Test y – The Thomas Knight, Rockingham family comes into focus.