Roberts Roots & Branches

Recently, I had a very close friend ask me to help him with some genealogy to find his biological family.  He had recently done a DNA test on Ancestry and needed someone to assist with charting relationships.  It is a beautiful story and even now, months later, there are still questions and research to do.   He and his family were able to meet with his biological family and new relationships have developed.   My daughter was interested in a particular family member on my husband's side.  She did as much research as she could and then asked me for help.  I helped as much as I could by conducting computer searches and reading through microfilms and the Family History Library.  Finally, we both had to admit we were at a dead end with the lack of documents available.  Fast forward two years later, and my daughter contacted me about this ancestor again believing she found a DNA match.   Watching these two situations unfold through D...

What's coming in the future of family history work and genealogy! If you want more original images released or if you're a numbers-kind-of person, you will find this post interesting:  " Don Anderson at FGS: We Have the Opportunity "at Ancestry Insider.  The article states: "FamilySearch has about 607 million images online and are adding about 500 million more a year from its microfilm collection at the Granite Mountain Records Vault."     Now that should leave you wanting to read more!  The picture entitled, "The task at hand" should leave us all wanting the indexing to move faster!  Go check it out. Here's the latest scoop on Ancestry.com and DNA matches from Gena-Musings:  " Checking in on Ancestry.com DNA Matche s".  Be sure to also link to the  two previous posts he has written on this subject they are entitled: " Results from Ancestry.com Autosmal DNA Tests-Post 1 and Results from Ancestry.com Autosmal DNA T...

Here are some notes I took from the Saturday, February 4, 2012 keynote speakers.  I hope that you find my notes as interesting as I found the speakers.  See also the full keynote at: http://rootstech.org/# Ancestry.com.  Moderator:  Tim Sullivan, CEO, & Panelists:  Eric Shoup, SVP of Product, Scott Sorensen, VP of Development, Johnathan Young, SVP of Technology and Ken Chahine, SVP of DNA. Ancestry.com has 1.7 million subscribers The data content is the foundation of their business. Ancestry.com accommodates various needs of researcher; from beginner to experienced.  Since various groups of researchers use Ancestry.com the site must must need the needs of a vast range of users. What is happening in DNA?   It is in the "mist of a revolution."  There have been great improvements.  However, so far, the use has been modest.  Hopefully in the future, DNA will be able to narrow down the place where they, ancestors, wer...