Carol Stetser
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DNA Ethnicity Estimates at Various Testing Sites
September 18, 2020 One of my nieces took an autosomal DNA test a while ago. When I talked to her about it (hoping she was becoming more interested in genealogy), she said she only took the test because she was interested in seeing what her ethnicity was. She told me she didn’t care about learning …
Finding School Records
September 11, 2020 School records are an often overlooked resource for genealogical information. There are a couple of reasons for this. Researchers often don’t even try to find school records because they figure there will be nothing of interest in them. It is true that school records frequently do not contain a lot of genealogical …
Vertical Files
September 4, 2020 Like most genealogists, over the years I’ve made great finds in various repositories that helped fill in the blanks in my family tree. Some of those treasures are documents that I dug out of old boxes in courthouse basements or from microfilmed copies of estate files, deeds and so on, but some …