Custom Clusters: Step Into Your Match’s Shoes

Custom Clusters: Step into your match's shoes

“Stepping into someone else’s shoes” is an idiom encouraging empathy to gain perspective for someone else’s lived experiences. Inspired by it, I recently applied this perspective to Ancestry’s new Custom Clusters tool obtaining incredible insights into a brick wall ancestor. You’re going to want to try this for yourself, too. In a previous post, I … Read more

Using Y-DNA to Analyze Genetic Networks and Unlinked Family Clusters

Using Y-DNA to Analyze Genetic Networks and Unlinked Family Clusters

Imagine finding a DNA match who has the surname you’re researching within their family tree, and their ancestor is a known descendant of your 5x great grandfather, who you have yet to identify. If only you knew this was the match you’ve been waiting for to break down that stubborn brick wall. Well, this is … Read more