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Cracking genetic genealogy cold cases with incorrect AncestryDNA ThruLines

Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team!

My apologies for the lack of articles over the past few months. The past 12 weeks have seen me beavering away on two genealogy-related books for Callisto Media. Tight deadlines and the Genealogy Adventures Live show moving to a weekly format hasn’t left me with much time to publish genealogy research articles.

Now that I have some spare…

In search of Thomas “The Immigrant” Futrell’s (Northampton County, NC) English ancestors

It’s fair to say that some of my ancestral families haven given me grey hairs when it comes to my research. My South Carolina Yeldell line is one example. I joke with my Genealogy Adventures co-host and cousin, Donya Williams, that our Yeldells are like the Magikoopas of Super Mariofame: they pop up out of nowhere, then disappear just as suddleny, to only magically materialize in an entirely new…

The new suite of genealogical and DNA analytical tools from MyHeritage has literally knocked my ancestry out of the park these past few days. The online service’s The Theory of Family Relativity Tool and AutoClusters obliterated four of my most stubborn ancestral brick walls…and confirmed the identity of a man I have long suspected to be my 4x great grandfather. This article is about that all…