Susan Field - Genealogist

07/13/2025

https://www.thoughtco.com/most-common-us-surnames-1422656

Review the 100 most common U.S. surnames and their origins. Did yours make the cut?

06/25/2025

06/19/2025

This is fun to watch.

03/25/2025

For my Genealogist friends and family researching veterans and their birth years for each of the wars.

03/17/2025

These identical twins married identical twins, and their children are genetic siblings (not cousins).

Identical twin sisters Briana and Brittany Deane married identical twin brothers, Josh and Jeremy Salyers.

The two couples live together in Virginia, where they run a wedding venue and raise their children — who are not just cousins but "quaternary twins." Since identical twins share the same DNA, their children are considered genetic siblings despite being born to different parents.

Learn more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/identical-twins-married-identical-twins-now-their-kids-are-both-cousins-and-siblings/

Image: Briana and Brittany Deane/Facebook

03/17/2025

DNA is sooooo interesting.

These identical twins married identical twins, and their children are genetic siblings (not cousins).

Identical twin sisters Briana and Brittany Deane married identical twin brothers, Josh and Jeremy Salyers.

The two couples live together in Virginia, where they run a wedding venue and raise their children — who are not just cousins but "quaternary twins." Since identical twins share the same DNA, their children are considered genetic siblings despite being born to different parents.

Learn more: https://www.vice.com/en/article/identical-twins-married-identical-twins-now-their-kids-are-both-cousins-and-siblings/

Image: Briana and Brittany Deane/Facebook

10/06/2024

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06/12/2024

Who let the Gene out of the bottle?

04/17/2024

https://snapshot.parabon-nanolabs.com/kinship?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2dk8UNsMt6QDCpNFVkDkr7bMtmKtpzp-fe4y-gPZo2wwD5aAtt7qPp9tg_aem_AaBa4ff8RFtAsC7GpUdnOasWfa8h0NPeC-qZ-bYuaq6H3KWNUX4zWyJeyqB-henMYKxkYODJxfv6arG3gl-UBk8Q

Snapshot Kinship Inference provides highly accurate inferences about the familial relationship between two people based on their DNA, even if they are distantly related. Unlike traditional forensic DNA methods, which are extremely limited in their ability to determine kinship (see tan region in the....