If you have Slovak ancestry and are curious about what Slovakia was like before your ancestors came to the US, why they might have come, and how to trace your Slovak roots, you have come to the right place. I became interested in Slovakia when learning about my own Slovak roots, and I wrote this …
What should you do when you find an error in an online family tree? Do you contact the owner? Do you ignore it? Find out what to do in this post!
If you know that you have half-siblings, or you think that you might, it’s completely natural to be curious about them. As DNA testing becomes more popular, it becomes easier to find living DNA relatives, including half-siblings, around the country – or even world. In this post, I’ll explain some strategies for finding your half-siblings …
I always recommend to my readers that they do a DNA test with Ancestry and build their tree there, too. There is no better place to combine access to documents and records, public family trees, and more than six million (as of February 2018) DNA test takers. One of the coolest features of Ancestry DNA …
In this post, we’ll explore the Scotch-Irish and try to understand what brought them to America – and how they might have ended up in your family tree. When I was growing up, I knew very little about my mom’s paternal side of the family. Supposedly, my maternal grandfather’s dad was Slovak, and his mother …
In this post, you will learn what is a 3/4 sibling, how much DNA 3/4 siblings typically share, and how to know if you have a three quarter sibling.
MRCA is of the most common notations used in genealogy. In this post, learn what these letters stand for in the definition of MRCA. If you’ve been doing this whole family tree research thing for a while, you might have seen the letters “MRCA”. It’s especially common to see this in the genetic genealogy sphere …
Do you want to know how to download your DNA file from Ancestry? It’s easy to do, and in this post, you’ll find the steps for how to do it.
If you have downloaded the We’re Related app from Ancestry to your phone, you’ve probably gotten some notifications about how you are possibly related to some famous individuals. Is the We’re Related App accurate? How do they come up with these suggestions? In this post, you will learn: How to tell if the famous person …
Here, you will learn what a mirror tree is, the basics of how to make a mirror tree on Ancestry, and what it can do for you in your search for family.