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.

ftDNA Has A New Dashboard ~ Its Great! Keep The Bifocals Handy!

Family Tree DNA announced a new dashboard! Love all things new. Why not? I did not read the announcement to see why they made the changes -- whether to create new page formats for smart phones and tablets, or to add new and more page links, or a combination of all the above. All this … Continue reading ftDNA Has A New Dashboard ~ Its Great! Keep The Bifocals Handy!

Genetic Ancestries, What A Can Of Worms ~ The Three Great Races, oops, great languages, oops, great haplogroups

Actually it was in the 18th century, and it was the father of anthropology and his friends that decided to "group" people where this term gained momentum in the lexicon of some folks. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, called the father of anthropology and Christoph Meiners both, were two of the great thinkers of the day and did … Continue reading Genetic Ancestries, What A Can Of Worms ~ The Three Great Races, oops, great languages, oops, great haplogroups

mt-DNA ~ Pedigree Collapse AND collapse over folks mistakes in understanding DNA

Oh, I could cry, I could have... a collapsing illness over the mistakes I saw in a video about two lovely doppelgangers taking DNA tests. Long story short, they look remarkably alike, which we see in genealogy all the time, but when they use DNA to answer three questions about how closely they might be … Continue reading mt-DNA ~ Pedigree Collapse AND collapse over folks mistakes in understanding DNA

DNA Uploads ~ Autosomal Transfers – Autosomal Additions!

Screen capture instructions below! See Google translate! The phrase 'autosomal transfer' sounds to me like you are moving something from one place to another. With autosomal transfer you do put your data in a new place, but it is still there in the old one, unchanged. It is like copy-paste, not cut-and-paste. When testing DNA … Continue reading DNA Uploads ~ Autosomal Transfers – Autosomal Additions!