A Family Tapestry

  Stumbling over lost leads in my quest to connect with my Olejniczak ancestors in Poland, I decided to cut to the chase and revisit my DNA ...

  Name twins can sometimes spin a researcher around in circles. Chasing one name, we may think we are following a straight trail, but all of...

  My goal today was to review the public Olejniczak family lines at FamilySearch, comparing that with my own tree at Ancestry.com, to see if...

  Finding a DNA cousins thanks to a match at Ancestry.com was fortunate, but it serves to point out a few problems facing those seeking con...

  Sometimes, it seems near impossible to connect collateral lines of our ancestors with stray DNA matches on our list of results. That's...

  If Bartholomew —or Bartłomiej in Polish—turns out to be the younger brother of my second great-grandmother Franciszka Olejniczak, it might...

  Any time we expand our family history research to include collateral lines, you know that can lead to solving questions about our mystery ...