In December of 2019 I did an AncestryDNA test. This is an autosomal DNA test which is the only kind of test that will help connect my family line to
DNA evidence the long way around
I’ve groused about the uncritical use of DNA evidence before. And I’ve muttered about how without careful thought and supporting documentary evidence DNA really can’t answer many genealogical questions. So
Finally! The re-footnoted Whitman article is back on the McLeland-Wieser Family Blog
It has taken me far too long but I’ve finally put all the footnotes back into The Children of Phoebe and George Whitman – using record analysis to establish relationships
I’ve created a puzzle for future genealogists of the McLeland family
I started writing this blog, over 10 years ago. My parents were both still living and so were all 4 of my mother’s siblings. My father, James Ray McLeland, had
Mary Foster Swartz – a lost child
When I first began researching the Schwartz/Swartz family over 25 years ago I came across a record in the Clark County, Indiana probate records that puzzled me. January term 1867
Starting a large Swartz/Schwartz publishing project
I’ve just published the first “chapter” in my large multi-family genealogy of the John and Elizabeth Ohlweiler Swartz/Schwartz family of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri and Ohio on The McLeland-Wieser
Richard Wharton never married a Sally Scott! A careful review of the records shows that her husband was Richard MORTON.
2/20/2020 – A further update regarding DNA evidence has been added at the end of this post. 10/23/2019 This post has been updated with further information about the will of
DNA evidence is not a genealogical miracle cure
You’ve hit a brick wall – say with an ancestor who flourished (don’t you love that word) in the early 1800s. You have excellent evidence connecting he or she to
About this blog and its author
The blog includes my research notes, results & interesting methodologies, sources (and the evidence they may contain) and books I find fascinating as well as random genie-historical musings. I am
William and Rhoda Watson Asher – not the William Asher family of Owen County, IN
Update – Ancestry’s Thru-Lines is serving up this couple as potential ancestors of my Thomas Asher – STILL. People are unwilling to make a change to their Ancestry trees and