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The future of genealogy
There are many excited genealogists at present, partly because of the huge RootsTech conference currently running in Salt Lake City. I could not join the 3,000 people attending RootsTech live, but I...
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Visit to Adelaide and Congress 2012
I’ve just returned from the 13th Australasian Congress on Genealogy & Heraldry Adelaide 2012, where I delivered one talk (on ‘Which Genealogy Program?‘) and attended more than 20 others. I...
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DNA tools for genealogists
DNA technology is advancing so rapidly that it is difficult to keep abreast of the advances and possibilities. Moreover rapidly falling prices make genetic testing more affordable and so more...
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Passenger lists leaving UK
The following is a blog post I wrote for findmypast.com.au. It appeared on 30 July 2012. It’s a common experience for genealogists – tracking ancestors forward through the UK censuses – to find that...
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Australian & NZ births, deaths & marriages
The earliest records available in the new colonies were the church records of baptisms, marriages and burials. Many people are missing from these registers – not all records have survived and not...
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Introduction to using DNA with your family history research
Traditional family history research involves looking for documents that name an ancestor – and hoping that everybody told the truth! By contrast, genetic tools that are now available to genealogists...
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Using Y-chromosome DNA
DNA testing does not provide names and so is not a substitute for more traditional family history research techniques. However a genealogist can use DNA testing as another tool to answer some family...
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DNA from our mother’s mothers
This article discusses the DNA we all inherit from our mother’s mothers (our matrilineal line). This genetic material is called mitochondrial DNA or mtDNA for short. Mothers pass mtDNA to all their...
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Autosomal DNA
Autosomal DNA is inherited by both males and females and received equally from each of our parents. In commercial genetic genealogy tests our autosomal DNA is compared against a large database of...
View ArticleDNA Painter “Cluster Auto Painter”
I’m just playing with the new tool on DNA Painter – ‘Cluster Auto Painter’. I have created MyHeritage clusters for the DNA test results of my Mum & her brother – for both I have a lot of unknown...
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