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My grandfather has several Y-DNA matches to men with the Smith surname.[1] We have not been able to figure out how they all connect to each ...

I love going through boxes of "old stuff" as much as any other genealogist out there. And I could spend hours doing so, especi...

In December of 2014, my mother and I returned to Arkansas to clean out my grandfather's house. While we were there, my mother's mat...

The will of Annie O'Neal Annie O'Neal was the wife of Zachariah O'Neal who wrote his will in Johnston County, North Carolina i...

In Part 1 of my series of posts about my AncestryDNA test, I wrote about one of my closest relative matches and in Part 2, I wrote about th...

Transylvanian Dutch  blog author John Newmark started the Monday blog theme called  Amanuensis Monday . According to John, “amanuensis” mean...