An Ever Widening Circle - Genealogy Research by Coni Dubois

11/06/2024

04/03/2024

10 Million Names is dedicated to finding the names of the estimated 10 million people of African descent who were enslaved in pre- and post-colonial America

04/03/2024

Give the gift of discovery to future generations! Tell us the most rewarding moment from your family history research in the comments below.

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04/03/2024

"Tricks for Finding the Unknown Burial Location of an Ancestor"
https://ancestralfindings.com/tricks-for-finding-the-unknown-burial-location-of-an-ancestor/

Are you searching for the burial location of an ancestor and can’t seem to find it? Here are three tried and true techniques for tracking it down.

04/03/2024

Have you received your mtFull Sequence results, but you're not sure what the mutations report means? Check out this handy chart to help you read your results.

DNA is composed of four chemicals: adenine, genuine, thymine, and cytosine, abbreviated as A, G, T and C. These chemicals occur in pairs, called base pairs, in DNA. Because of their chemical structure, A is always paired with T, and G is always paired with C.

When new embryos are created, sometimes one base pair may be substituted for another. For example, in a particular location an AT pair might be inadvertently substituted for a GC pair. These small copy errors are called mutations.

To track these changes and how they differ from other DNA sequences, we use a universal reference sequence. This reference sequence serves as a standard to which all mutations are compared.