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Ancestry is in the process of revamping its DNA services with higher prices and new fees, including a new paid offering called AncestryDNA Plus that paywalls formerly free features. Here's what we know, and what you can do if you have ever purchased an AncestryDNA kit.

The fate of the colony is one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the history of the United States.

 today. 4)  AncestryDNA added 71 new DNA matches this past week, with no new ThruLines and  MyHeritage added 30 new DNA matches.   Reviewed the new DNA matches on  AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe.  Added Notes to 8 more AncestryDNA matches with cM values, relationships and known shared ancestors, and added 0 ThruLines to RootsMagic.   5)  There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree p...

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 25 April to 1 May 2021 Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts. My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I dont list posts destined for d...

I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy. My wife (Angel Linda) and I have two lovely daughters, and five darling grandchildren. We love to visit them and have them visit us. Angel Linda and I love to travel to visit friends and relatives, to sightsee, to cruise or to do genealogy. Our travels have taken us all over the USA, to England, Down Under and Scandinavia. For earlier posts (not visible on the m...

  This weeks document for transcription is the 1697 inventory of the estate of John Grout (1616-1697) of Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, which is in Estate File 9951 in the Middlesex County Probate Court records.  [image 6 of 7]: The inventory is also included in the Middlesex County Probate Court Clerks volumes, in Volume 9, pages 101-102: The transcription of the Inventory is (from the court clerk volume, because it is clearer and easier to read: An Inventory of the Housing Lands ...

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 4 to 10 April 2021    Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts. My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I dont list posts destined for...

Best of the Genea-Blogs - Week of 7 to 13 March 2021  Scores of genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts. My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I dont list posts destined for dai...

time for some more Genealogy Fun!! Here is your assignment, should you decide to accept it (you ARE reading this, so I assume that you really want to play along - cue the Mission Impossible music!): 1) This week we travel down Memory Lane again - tell us about your high school years with answers to ten questions. 3.  Put it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.  Please leave a link in a comment to this post. Heres mine: 1. What was your high schools full na...

For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once known derisively as the Melungeons. Some speculated they were descended from Portuguese explorers, or perhaps from Turkish slaves or Gypsies. Now a new DNA study in the Journal of Genetic Genealogy attempts to separate truth from oral tradition and wishful thinking. The study found the truth to be somewhat less exotic: Genetic evidence shows that the families histor...