2014-03-14 22:28
My mother's genetic journey began with one mystery, and led to another.My mother's late father was a Cyr, but the family had long suspected that he was fathered by his mother's eventual seco… Read More
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2012-12-28 22:38
Having received free admission to the AncestryDNA Beta and gained some knowledge as a result, I feel obliged to offer a review of the service.Through my father, I expected my genetic ancestr… Read More
2011-05-13 20:08
Like Thomas MacEntee, I think a GeneaBloggers' Code of Conduct is long overdue. From now on, any blogger wishing to appear in my Genealogy Blog Finder must adhere to the following guidelines… Read More
2010-04-19 19:36
I first wrote about scientists producing human embryos with the DNA of three people in 2008. The new issue of Nature has an article on the researchers' progress.The British team carrying out… Read More
2010-04-10 15:52
Not only is genealogy a worthless pursuit, it can lead to family discord.Illegitimate children, hidden affairs, troubled finances and deceit all await those determined to piece together thei… Read More
2010-04-07 23:41
The Times has another of those "genealogists are (and should be) only interested in famous ancestors" articles, this time by Sathnam Sanghera.Genealogists also have a habit of remarking that… Read More
2010-04-03 03:50
Chris Staats finds five degrees of separation between himself and George Washington. I think I can beat him.I knew my great-aunt Gladys (died when I was 25), who knew her grandfather Lemuel… Read More
2010-03-29 21:31
It's a genealogist's worst nightmare: 800,000+ burials and only one marked grave.Most New Yorkers don’t even know it’s there. Hart Island, near the popular summer spot City Islan… Read More
2010-03-27 07:03
The consul general of Barbados in New York is obliged to visit local Barbadians who've reached 100 years of age on their birthdays. Mae Bishop will have none of it.According to her birth cer… Read More
2010-03-19 17:38
Via Nina Lentini's Life Without End:She was born Myrtle Hart, at 85 Morrell Street in New Brunswick. However, as she would admit to anyone, she loathed the name Myrtle, so she would introduc… Read More
2010-03-17 03:27
Maine lawmakers eager to protect our privacy must be relieved that Elwyn W. Lancaster has passed away.Elwyn had a remarkable memory for dates and numbers and was known in the community as th… Read More
2010-03-14 02:29
The proofreader of the Topeka Capital-Journal may soon be replaced by a 13-year-old.A 13-year-old who began reading when he was in kindergarten won the 2010 Topeka Capital-Journal Regional S… Read More
2010-03-09 19:56
Kimberly Powell proves that, while not everything is online, enough is online to make Sarah Jessica Parker weepy.My Scots Ancestors presents the geekiest genealogy post in the world, convert… Read More
2010-03-08 22:49
Interesting discussion over at Genea-Musings here and here regarding the question whether an American of Colonial descent should be able to document his complete ancestry back ten generation… Read More
2010-03-06 00:58
Neil Genzlinger's New York Times column on tonight's premiere of "Who Do You Think You Are?" warns potential family historians not to get their hopes up.Some of us may take the genealogical… Read More
2010-02-23 03:10
On last night's Simpsons episode, one of Lisa's paternal ancestors looked remarkably like Lisa's mother, who is related only by marriage to the Simpsons.Back to the Future III had a similar… Read More
2010-02-22 08:47
Who's stupider—Time columnist Joel Stein or his great-grandmother?I found out through the 1930 Census that my father's father's parents paid $45 a month for a one-room New York City ap… Read More
2010-02-22 01:21
Yitta Schwartz, who died last month in New York at age 93, left behind some 2,000 living descendants.Mrs. Schwartz was a member of the Satmar Hasidic sect, whose couples have nine children o… Read More
2010-02-20 17:13
The Hawaii Health Department has to deal daily with birthers eager to see President Obama's "real" birth certificate, says spokeswoman Janice Okubo.When Okubo told one writer they did not ha… Read More
2010-02-09 04:32
An odd and touching story by Dave Eggers, founder of Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency. His website, literary journal and publishing house bear the name of a mysterious man who shared hi… Read More
2010-02-06 19:30
Someday we might all be carrying bottles of liquid glass to the graveyard.Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage fro… Read More
2010-02-04 17:16
The latest chapter in the Annie Moore saga involves the discovery of a photograph that may or may not show Annie and her brothers at Ellis Island in 1892.Megan asks for help in proving the a… Read More
2010-02-04 16:56
There might be a genetic reason that Uncle Mario prefers eating at the Szechuan Palace.Some people of Italian ancestry, like me, might have a surprise in the family tree—a man of east… Read More
2010-01-28 20:06
I do love correcting the New York Times:[J.D. Salinger's] mother, Marie Jillisch, was of Irish descent, born in Scotland, but changed her first name to Miriam (the name, incidentally, of the… Read More
2010-01-18 06:44
The towns of Ponca City and Cross were both founded in Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip in 1893. Only one would survive.Both aspired to be the county seat, and the war between them waxed so warm th… Read More
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