Family History Research by Jody Lutter

We have another set of potential ONeil cousins . Two people who are second cousins to each other share DNA with my father and his three sibl...

Have relatives of Mary Neil (1830-1898) been identified among the DNA matches at Ancestry? Mary Neil, or Neill, or ONeill, was my great gre...

Patrick McCabe (1845-1912) and Ann Somers (1845-1904) were born in Ireland. In 1867 they married at Saint Peter's Catholic Church in J...

My Heritage now offers pedigree views of family trees. This was a desperately needed modification. In this view, you can see the anc...

A few years ago at 23andMe a close match appeared for my father, his siblings, and their third cousin, Bob, on their shared Cook/Neil line ...

Genetic Communities is Ancestry.com's newest feature for DNA testers. This is not the same as an ethnicity estimate.  Please see The ...

Spoiler alert:  Irish hometowns not discovered (yet). I am trying to discover where in Ireland Patrick Joyce (1830-1905) and Margaret Cam...

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