Let's get down to the barebones questions that family and friends have asked me about DNA testing.Īll my ancestral lines (that I have found so far) arrived in the "New World" before 1776. Genetic Genealogy (aka: I did a DNA test on Ancestry)ĭNA testing has become the latest tool for genealogists to research their family history. Currently, there are 297,466 individuals in my offline database. It's a journey that I still set out on everyday. It's been 38 years since that journey began. At ten years old, I was the youngest person, at that time, that was doing the research willingly. We would go through the research books together. The librarians taught me how to use the microfiche machines so I could help my mom look up census records. My mom would take us to the local library in Independence, Missouri that, at the time, housed the genealogy center in their basement. My interest in genealogy began when I was very young. They would talk about those who had already died. I would sit and listen to my elders reminisce about the days that had already passed them by. I would visit with my great-grandmother, my grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. When I was growing up my parents would take us to Sedalia, Missouri for the annual family get-together's of my Parker and Watson families. Myth #1: Alexander Fleming's Father saved Winston Churchill.From Scotland to America: The Descendants of John Kellie and Janet Thomson compiled by Laurie Kelley-Wentz.The following books are currently available to the public.
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