Getting ready for RootsTech London

Two years ago, in February 2017, I had the possibility to attend the RootsTech in Salt Lake City, Utah for the first time. And so far the only time, I have to say. It was a great experience to see so many exhibitors, classes, courses and speakers on Genealogy. I was almost overwhelmed with all …

Murphy’s Law – even with documents

Sometimes, I think that Murphy is out to fool me 🙂 I am hosting the #genchatDE, the German version of #genchat. And we had the topic of "helping hands", meaning that the attendees just came with their questions, brick walls, dead ends and the community would jump in and try to help. I am not …

My ancestor score March 2019

I can't believe I forgot to post my ancestor score last month. Shame on me 🙂 So, here it is. You can see that I finally, FINALLY had a breakthrough regarding my greatgrandmother. May I introduce? Her name is Anna Maria Petz. That means, I have hope that I can finalize the next generation one …

Still my most favorite report in FTM

On a regular basis it is time to clean up my family tree. And I don’t know about yours but mine has gotten way too big to keep the overview of all the details for every person. But what do have we software solutions for these days? I use ancestry and its software Family Tree Maker 2017 …

I’m not Irish anymore

Ancestry has updated their DNA Ethnicity Estimates. And with these updates there have been some changes to my estimates, too. To be very honest, nothing really fancy or too surprising. But the worst part? I am not Irish anymore.. so far I had a low confidence of 1% and I bought directly into it. I …