How ancestry enhanced shared matches can help you

I was going to start this month’s article by talking about why we love this hobby so much but I realised that this isn’t really a hobby at all. Genealogy/family tree research/ancestor hunting or whate

Earlier this year I looked at using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) tests for genealogy, looking at how reader Lynne could make use of her matches from this test (the Full Mitochondrial Sequence (FMS) from

My name is Mandy Geary, and I’m a professional genealogist based in Essex. Similarly to Claire Bradley in her review of RootsMagic10 (see FT August), I have to confess I’m not a regular user of any of

I spend a lot of time talking about DNA and I love sharing my experiences with it, but occasionally I wonder what really makes genetic genealogy work for me. Below I’ve distilled my thoughts into four

Picture this: you have followed that advice, spending countless hours building your family tree, squinting at faded census records and wrestling with handwriting that makes doctors’ prescriptions look

‘DNA isn’t a magic bullet,’ says DNA Detective Michelle Leonard. ‘Sometimes people think it’s going to be, and they think it’s going to “throw up the answers”.’ Occasionally this happens, ‘if you’re r