In my last post I wrote about the brick wall in my family tree that got me hooked on genealogy – a brick wall that remains today, over a decade after I first encountered it. Today I’m going to talk a bit about a brick wall that I was very pleased to see crumble years… Continue reading A Brick Wall Down: Jacob Wilson’s Parents
Tag: dna
Genealogists have brick walls, too
All I know about Emma's life comes from exactly one document: the 1900 census
Finding Italian cousins through DNA?
Here is something I wouldn't have ever expected to see until the past few months: my closest maternal DNA cousin on MyHeritage.com is now someone from Italy. And not only that, the match helped me solve a genealogical question it would have otherwise taken much more time and tedium to resolve.
Jeanie, Genealogist 