Debra, I have not received the DNA invitation yet. I looked at the tree. My immediate reactions are (1) Mexico, not a lot of DNA matches, (2) not a lot of trees filled in deep enough (3) lots of people not knowing their families (4) requires extensive international account research. (5) many people with no
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Hi Laura, Questions for your Angels: What would you consider the most time consuming but necessary part of finding birth parents with DNA? I am particularly interested in what you say about using Ancestry DNA. What DNA and online tools “work” best? Are you using AI tools yet to build the pedigrees, find and connect
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My daughter and I were talking about plant DNA. A couple of years ago I bought her a full genome test for $300 just to see what her full genome looked like. I could not make sense of the plant genome testing industry and services. If you have a couple of minutes can you point
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Christine, I am happy it was helpful. This year I finally gave up DNA genealogy. I built or helped build full pedigrees for many people, about 160 DNA tests. Of those more than 100 adoptions, missing parents, missing fathers, “tree does not match DNA”. But I just got worn out. It is not hard to
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Gresham College: Gresham Meggett Oral History Project Kick-Off Meeting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Ii8Iwc-As This would be much better and more accessible if there were English captions and transcript. The auto translations to other languages is something that Google/YouTube does pretty well. Desegregation and oral history are global cross-cutting issues of interest to most cultures. But (oral history
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