Over the years, adopted children have fought for the ability to find their biological parents. State laws have changed slowly, and a few allow access to records, but for many the records are still closed. Government agencies charge exorbitant fees Read More …
Author: Michael Fletcher
“Cold case” murders are being solved at a record pace with DNA
In the News this week! Investigators are entering genetic evidence from old, unsolved rape-murders into a publicly accessible database of DNA profiles. Traditionally used by genealogists so they can use genetic matches to distant family to locate family and ancestors Read More …
Online Indexing Errors and How to Work Around Them, Part 2
As discussed in last week’s post, the online databases and indexes, as helpful as they are, can be fraught with errors which would lead you to believe a record doesn’t exist The trick is trying as much as you can Read More …
Online Indexing Errors and How to Work Around Them, Part 1
Over the last 15 years we’ve seen huge changes in the way we conduct genealogy research. I remember jumping on the bus in suburban Detroit, taking the ride down Woodward Ave to the massive Detroit Public Library to go through Read More …
Board for Certification of Genealogists Seeking Input for Proposed DNA Standards
An announcement resulting from a meeting of the Board for Certification of Genealogists at the NGS Conference in Grand Rapids on May 2, 2018. Via a Facebook post, BCG announced the following on May 23, 2018: At the annual meeting Read More …