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 Recently Ancestry DNA suggested that I contact a new DNA match.

Fortunately there was a family tree attached and I was able to identify my match as a cousin that I knew about, but I had never contacted personally. She is a second cousin, once removed: a great grand daughter of my grandfather's older sister Jane Buchanan.

I discovered that she had inherited some g...


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 I had an AncestryDNA test several months ago. Then I discovered a problem. Like many people, I had separate trees for my father's and my mother's biological families. I was surprised to find that there was no way to connect BOTH to my DNA results.

When I connected Dad's tree, AncestryDNA would detect relationships in his tree, but not in Mom's. And when I connected Mom...


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