An American Genealogy https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html In Remembrance – Daniel Walter Leonard (1868-1924) Finding the Yeomans Suffering the Black Hole of Hudson River Valley Genealogy Cookie Policy In remembrance – Peter Charles Leonard (1944-1976) It’s time to stop giving attention to “Ethnicity” Archive Collections Our project to save a piece of Racine, Wisconsin history, Part 1 – Getting Started Matching unmatched DNA matches by Casting a Wide Net, Part 6 – Our crazy attempt to leverage 288 DNA matches to expand our tree comes to it’s conclusion In Remembrance: Royal Johnson Morse (1808-1901) Local historians bring a one-of-a-kind collection to the public eye In remembrance: William “Will” Thornton (1866-1940) Our project to save a piece of Racine, Wisconsin history, Part 2 – Making a connection Subscribe Taking a step back from working on our Family Tree – A follow up Food and Family History Our biggest brick wall breakthrough so far started with a forgotten tweet, a LOT of work, and migraine on Super Bowl Sunday: Putting it All Together Part 1 A Profile in Political Courage: An Ancestor Stands Against a Tyrant, Fellow Republican 100 Days Men: A memorial of Eugene Place The brick wall starts to crumble: Putting it all together – Part 2 Matching unmatched DNA matches by Casting a Wide Net Nelson’s Variety Store: The last days of a Racine Institution One stunning turn after another as our brick wall falls: Putting it all together – Part 3 Solving Our Family Tree Mystery Opens Old Wounds Matching unmatched DNA matches by Casting a Wide Net, Part 5 – Rolling up our sleeves and doing some genealogy In remembrance: James Bennet Tradewell (1797-1885) Contact Ancestry’s “Inseparable” commercial is racist and a perfect example of the how white America continues to perpetuate racism #ThrowbackThursday – From the Archives: Buying a boat for 4th of July Ancestry’s new ThruLines feature is both a “killer app” and the start of the future of genealogy How to make the most of your AncestryDNA matches: Part 3 – Building connections to your unknown DNA matches How to make the most of your AncestryDNA matches: Part 4 – How to quickly, and effectively, use GEDmatch About this blog How to make the most of your AncestryDNA matches: Part 5 – DNA Painter’s “What are the Odds” and how to link unknown matches to your tree Ancestry.com takes another step away from its genealogical roots… How to make the most of your AncestryDNA matches: Part 6 – A science-free walk through xDNA, yDNA, and mtDNA Product Review: DeedMapper 4.2 – An essential tool to bring land purchases/sales into your Family History research How to make the most of your AncestryDNA matches: Part 1 – Getting started How to make the most of your AncestryDNA matches: Part 2 – Leveraging your strongest matches to make quicker work of your more challenging matches! How to leverage the power of deed records in Family History research Why Kenyatta D. Berry’s “The Family Tree Toolkit” needs to be on your bookshelf! Taking a step back from building our Family Tree Matching unmatched DNA matches by Casting a Wide Net, Part 4 – Proving the matches, and establishing a theory of connection Matching unmatched DNA matches by Casting a Wide Net, Part 3 – Building a single tree using all of our DNA matches Public Trees Matching unmatched DNA matches by Casting a Wide Net, Part 2 – Identifying all “Matches of Matches” as a Group Matching unmatched DNA matches by Casting a Wide Net, Part 1 – A crazy, desperate idea We’re Related app is a lot less frivolous than it first appears There’s no other way to put it – MacKiev’s Family Tree Maker is garbage Our Family Archives are now Online! To save our family archives, we must give them away