Milestones, 2022
Looking back to 2021, forward to 2022 The very best part of falling headlong into family history research is the stories. Stories in The Legal Genealogist’s family take us back a long way in America on the maternal side and in Germany on the paternal side. Stories...Those first DNA testers…
Looking back on those tests Today is the last Sunday of 2021, and the last time for The Legal Genealogist to think back on the pros, cons, and complications of using DNA as part and parcel of genealogical evidence. Which makes it a perfect time to look back at the...An overdue “thank you”
… for the Shared cM tool … For roughly the forty-‘leventh time in just the past few weeks, The Legal Genealogist answered a question the same way just a couple of days ago. A Facebook poster couldn’t understand why a paper-trail third cousin...Fall 2021 DNA sales
Everybody has a deal The fall sale season is about to wrap up for the major DNA companies, giving us — and our cousins — a reason to go ahead and get that DNA test done. Soon. Today even. Yep, at least one sale ends today, so… In the order of when...Silly suit season
Ancestry sued again The Legal Genealogist is going to go out on a limb here and declare that it must officially be silly suit season. Because a lawsuit just filed against Ancestry is really really really silly. Just filed in federal court in southern Illinois, the...Y we know what we know
William Noel was not a Battles DNA doesn’t always make our research lives easier. It often sends us down really complicated rabbit holes. But, even in a worst case scenario, it can keep us from going down the wrong rabbit hole. Case in point: yesterday on...Recombining relations
Why we test everyone we can It’s the phrase every single child, ever, hates to hear. The Legal Genealogist sure knows it, and heard it often enough. You know the one. “Why can’t you be more like (fill in the blank with the name of the particular...Estating the obvious…
We all need a DNA estate plan If there is anything in this world that should be abundantly clear to us all, after 19 months of a global pandemic and nearly five million dead (including 700,000 Americans), it’s that we all need to think about making sure our...Not soup in 2021 either
About those new percentages… Repeat after The Legal Genealogist: they’re just estimates. Say it again: they’re just estimates. One more time: they’re just estimates. Yes, I got my new estimated admixture estimates from Ancestry on Friday.. Yes,...Subscribe by Email
