I have been fascinated by barbarian history since my sixth grade Social Studies teacher, Mr. Rose, handed me the textbook on the subject....

   Bill West, author of the blog series ‘ West in New England ’, has been writing about his ggg-grandfather, John Cutter West, for over five...

   Sometimes in genealogy, we go for the gold.  We try to figure out how we are descended from Presidents, royalty or other famous people. ...

   When we use DNA to research our family history, we have the potential to uncover quite a bit of information.  We could find living cousi...

   Don’t get me wrong.  Autosomal DNA testing is a very valuable tool.  A match has the possibility of breaking through some very significa...

Photo Credits    There has been a lot in the news lately about Cousin Otzi.   They talk about the fact that he had brown eyes, was lac...

   I talk about using DNA for genealogy often.  My favorite is the Y-DNA test.  It has the largest number of benefits for the researcher.  I...