Sometimes, in looking through records to solve a mystery, you find a new one. Today, I found one — that is also a tragedy.
DNA Matching Creates and Solves a Mystery
I tell the story about how researching DNA mátches turned up an unusual dual relationship — his mother is related …
Disentangling the Kjerstin Nilsdotters
I found four Kjerstin Nilsdotters (or maybe just three) born in the same year, same parish. I had two of …
Did Siblings Marry?
Working my way back in the generations, when trying to find a connection between myself and a DNA match, I …
Interconnections
Ancestry’s ThruLines found the wrong (Swedish) connection for several of my DNA matches, through the wrong Maria Nilsdotter. But the …
Katarina Andersdotter Times Two (Three?)
A small universe of common given names, plus patronyms instead of family names, plus alternate spellings of all names, produces …
Beata Josefine
A personal family story, from an article I published in Everton’s Family History Magazine, March 2002, with Kimberly Powell, on the …
ArvBlog.us – A Family History Blog
I began this blog to include some longer ruminations about the process of doing family history, and to document some …