Family History Research by Jody Lutter

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...

If you have not heard , you can now access digital images of Catholic records on the website of the National Library of Ireland . A lot o...

The prior article concerned DNA cousins in common .  Finding DNA cousins who match you and some of your other DNA cousins is not uncommon.  ...

I found a website detailing the history of a school in Meentinadea, County Donegal, Ireland. I was directed to the page by searching for a...

A Brady cousin has been found!  She came forward after discovering the match through DNA and then checking family trees.   H.M. and R.S. a...