Admittedly, I am a sucker for anything having to do with genealogy and DNA. So, when an email landed in my inbox promising 25% off something called a “GPS Origins” DNA analysis, I jumped at the chance to learn more about the migration patterns of my “ancient” ancestors! How could I pass up the opportunity to get GPS coordinates pinpointing… More →
Month: March 2019
Through and ThruLines
One of Ancestry.com’s newest genetic tools is called ThruLines. Essentially, ThruLines looks at your DNA matches and information in your collective family trees and attempts to create a biologically-based family tree explaining how you are/might be related through a potentially common ancestor. I have a love/hate relationship with this tool. Unfortunately, in a few cases, it has picked up bad,… More →
Womack Attack!
The first rule of genealogy I learned is “search for research done by others”. That lesson continues to yield phenomenal results! Searching for Hambleton and Womack research I came across a four-volume work compiled by Edward Pleasants Valentine, who, incidentally, is a distant cousin! Published posthumously in 1929, Edward’s tome of abstracted colonial court records on 34 family surnames includes… More →