Your Genealogy Matters

Seriously, don't go there. So in the past couple weeks, I wrote about the people who are crabbing about others on Ancestry who do not either make their trees public, or have no trees at all, which I have dubbed Tested With No Tree, or TWNT. Said complainers find it very rude of those TWNT people who are not sharing what they know. How unfair is life that the complainers have shared their trees, but the TWNT people are causing them great consternation. And I pointed out their problem is their own.  Because it is.  They created it.  Now they whine hoping that something will hear them and their needs. As you can tell, I don't have a lot of sympathy of these people.  We ALL would love to have the answers we crave dished up and served to us.  How great would life be, right? There is nothing that says anyone HAS TO upload a tree.  Nothing. Nada. BUT, and this is the bigger consideration - what if the person/people you have been badgering to r...

When Ancestry rolled out it's latest onslaught - the affordable auotsomal tests - into the genealogy markets, a by-product of the tests became their use by adoptees to learn something about their genetic backgrounds. This is because not only have the big four test providers (Ancestry, My Heritage, 23 and Me and Family Tree DNA) provided users with an idea of their genetic make up - where your ancestors might have come from - but they also provide, in varying degrees matches to people who have DNA tests that matches bits and parts of your DNA. And this is where things are becoming sticky, and people are wondering what do I do? In our house, we used DNA testing on ourselves as something that we thought it would open doors with test.  It was of special interest to my husband, because his mother was adopted out of New York State, where adoption records are locked down tighter than  Hetty Green's  purse.   While we have been able to identify and confirm my mothe...