Spike Lee researches his ancestry on Who Do You Think You Are? A moving #history #genealogy story.
https://youtu.be/F-S3yt6qHIQ

I got a #DNA match from a half first cousin's son. We always "knew" that dad and his half brother had the same father, but it's nice to have confirmation. #genealogy

An amazing story. The story keeps getting deeper. Rita Wilson on Who Do You Think You Are?
#genealogy
https://youtu.be/6I3pKn6uNmY

A new avenue for Black American #genealogy via DNA
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191914142/a-landmark-study-opens-a-new-possible-way-for-black-americans-to-trace-their-anc

Slave owners among the ancestors of many top US Government officeholders.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/slaverys-descendants-americas-family-secret-rcna90826
#genealogy #race

Ancestry and 23andMe both think I'm exceedingly white but disagree in how to break it down. They seem most confused by my French and German ancestors. #genealogy

Have an AncestryDNA match who gave her name as "SHOETOE." Ancestry gave a potential descent from a common ancestor. Figured I would have a difficult time determining which of the siblings got the DNA test. One of them married a Sciuto. Light Bulb! #Genealogy

If someone is a DNA match on a very well researched line and they've posted a tree, we are almost always related on the branch that just shows a parent or grandparent. Often they know all about that line and are afraid of getting 40 messages from DNA cousins.

But I want to attach them to my tree. So I have to research them all the way back to our common ancestor.

Which makes me want to send a message because of all the work I did to figure out how we're related. 😁 #Genealogy

I've had ancestors in the US for 401 years (Nov 1621) and there were already slaves here before that. Some of my ancestors owned slaves. All branches of my family benefited from slavery. The one ancestor I may exempt from that is a 2nd great grandma's brother who arrived in the US from Germany in 1860, enlisted in the Union army in 1861 and fought in many major battles of the Civil War. He was at Appomattox. #Genealogy #fairness #restitution

I'm going to start finding dead people. Later, folks. #Genealogy

Wow. Her last name is Vandenbusche and his last name is Baldeschwiller. Would be quite the hyphenated name if she went that route. #Genealogy

#Genealogy tip: It is difficult for someone to be born several years after either of their parents has died.

I thought my dad was old. Discovered a family where the wife is 63, the husband is 91, and they have a son who is 31 and a daughter who's 28. I saw birth records for both of their children, so they're most likely his. #Genealogy

Maternal grandpa Matthew Ryan, for whom I was named. This is him at age 18 in 1909. He was a farmer and also graded the dirt road he lived on. He died on this date 90 years ago of pneumonia, not quite 42 years old. His youngest child was 2 weeks old when he died. Mom was 2½. Grandpa's sister was a nurse, but she couldn't do a thing for him. Penicillin was years away. #Genealogy #CoSoPhotography

Have been connecting more DNA matches to my tree. Ancestry should really be paying the people who take their tests and make all these connections for them. #Genealogy #DNA

Today Grandma Pearl would be 120. Hard to believe. #Genealogy #CoSoPhotography

I understand why I'm curious about ancestors and want to find them all (unrealistic). I'm not sure why I also want to track down every single cousin on every line. #Genealogy

Just watched Finding Your Roots.

Angela Davis, black "radical" from the 60s and 70s is descended from William Brewster, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, passenger on the Mayflower.

#History is wilder than any fiction.
#Genealogy

This from an Ohio birth record on Ancestry. The additional information is always the name of one of the parents. 🤔 #Genealogy

Working on #Genealogy I run across many different surnames. Today I found one for which I had no clue on the origin. Myllymaki. After Googling I found out it is Finnish. Every day you learn something new.