A Family Tapestry

  At a loss for how to solve my research problem this month—finding the parents of my second great-grandfather Alexander Boothe—I decided to...

  When brick wall ancestors have brought research progress to a dead stop, DNA testing can provide the bypass to reach an answer. In my case...

  March has been a month of negatives. In pursuit of my candidate for this month's Twelve Most Wanted, my second great-grandfather Alexa...

  Double-checking facts found for a brick wall ancestor? Maybe make that a triple-check. Or possibly a quadruple-check. Just in case someone...

  While it may seem that the holy grail for genealogists is the documentation verifying our ancestors' life details, I've had my own...

  There were six Boothe men listed in the 1840 census for Nansemond County , Virginia, birthplace of my second great-grandfather Alexander ...

  One use of DNA testing for genealogy is to help point us beyond brick wall ancestors to their possible parents. With my second great-grand...