Articles that reference Genealogy Research Resources

How Your Family Tree Brings Your DNA to Life

If you’ve received your DNA results from a genealogy DNA website, but have little or no genealogical research experience, this article provides guidance about how to discover what and who your DNA matches are revealing to you.

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Cousins, DNA Research, DNA Research Tips and Resources, Family Trees, Finding Family, Genealogy Articles, Genealogy Research Resources, Genetic Genealogy, Grandparents, Research Tips

How to Leverage DNA Matches Without Family Trees

If DNA matches without family trees seem to be posing obstacles in your research, read on for tips on how to leverage DNA mystery matches to open new discoveries on your genetic genealogical journey.

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DNA Research, DNA Research Tips and Resources, Family Trees, Finding Family, Genealogy Articles, Genealogy Research Resources, Research Tips

What Genealogical DNA Tests Reveal About You

DNA evidence is essential if you truly want to know the people who’ve come together throughout time to create you. Knowing how genealogical DNA tests work and how to interpret data they provide opens you to infinite facets of the biological story that’s led to your Earthly existence.

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DNA Research, DNA Research Tips and Resources, Genealogy Articles, Genealogy Research Resources, Genetic Genealogy, Research Tips

The Enslaved Listed In the Will of Rev. Adam Jones

Enslaved Americans Listed in the Will of Reverend Adam Jones

Enslaved North Americans listed by name in the will of Reverend Adam Jones: Bill, Candace, Peter, Frank, Hannah, Charity, Celia, William, and Frank.

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African American History, American Slaveowners, Enslaved Americans, Genealogy Articles, Genealogy Research Resources, Georgia Genealogy, My Family Lines, Research Tips, Souls Discovered While Researching, They Have a Name

Researching 7 Generations of Your Human History

7 generations include you and 126 of your closest ancestors. Most of these relatives have left a paper trail on this Earth that can be researched.

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Family Trees, Genealogy Articles, Genealogy Research Resources, Grandparents

Exactly How You’re Related to Your Cousins

This article explains how you’re related to your ‘distant’ and not so distant cousins and explores the value of interviewing cousins as part of your DNA and genealogy research.

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Consanguinity, Degrees of Kinship, DNA Research, Genealogy Articles, Genealogy Research Resources, Genetic Genealogy, Your Family Members

How many grandparents have you discovered?

Why You’ll Never Know How Many Grandparents You Have

None of us actually know how many grandparents we have due to a phenomenon called pedigree collapse. This article explains what pedigree collapse is and how it affects your family history.