Family History Research by Jody Lutter

A Walling cousin kindly shared the results of his Y-DNA test. He is my father's eighth cousin, once removed. Sometimes you have to tr...

Michael Preston and Ann were my fourth great grandparents.  Their existence is seen only in the death certificate of their son, Michael Pres...

The results of my Living DNA test have arrived . The screenshots are shared with you below, along with comparisons to other DNA companies...

Family Tree DNA notifies you when a "close" relative is found.  Based on whose account also received this email, I knew that...

My father finally has a Y-DNA match at Family Tree DNA . Both my father and the person who is a match tested 37 markers.  His surname is ...

To celebrate DNA Day , FamilyTreeDNA and AncestryDNA had brief sales on their kits .  Their autosomal DNA testing kits regularly cost $100...

Another close match appeared at FamilyTreeDNA for my maternal uncle. The common ancestors of these three cousins were  Mary Zolder (18...

In December I tested my  mitochondrial DNA  ("mtDNA") with  FamilyTreeDNA .   My first mtDNA test was over five years ago with Anc...

More markers were tested for an O'Donnell cousin's Y-DNA test at FamilyTreeDNA .  We originally started with only 37 markers , but t...