Several years ago, I helped an adoptee I called “Gordon” identify his biological father. (Gordon is a pseudonym, as are…
Learn to use the single most important tool for DNA mysteries: WATO (What Are the Odds?)
Level: Intermediate
What Are the Odds? is one of the most helpful tools for autosomal DNA, and now it’s even better!
Two of the most useful aids for figuring out how you are related to your autosomal DNA matches are at…
Reaching out to DNA matches is a necessity, and an art form.
In the mid-1940s, Dr. Thomas Jugarthy Hicks opened the Hicks Community Clinic in the small town of McCaysville, Georgia, mere…
What can you do when you find out your parents were closely related?
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