Author: Adrienne Smith

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NPEs

The other day I sat down and indulged myself in a bit of genealogical wandering. I have a suspected NPE in the Mullady line on my paternal grandmother’s side due to the shared matches. There are a group of matches on FTDNA, siblings, one of whom has their results on Ancestry. I’ve corresponded with this person before and they have told me that they are definitely not related to us in the recent past because they have already done their whole family tree in depth. I think I suggested that we must be related more closely than that, but was […]

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GRIP – Genealogical Organization

Last week I took an excellent GRIP (Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh) course in Genealogical Organization from Kelli Jo Bergheimer. Although it wasn’t exactly what I expected, I learned a lot from the course. I have so many papers, photos and digital information floating around and was hoping that the course would go over where to put it all. Instead, it was about working smarter and more effectively. Kelli did cover some of the information I was interested in, but expanded it to so much more. She went over calendars, genealogy software, Feedly, email groups, blogs, and calendars and that was […]

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Welcome to my Blog

Once of my resolutions this year was to start a genealogy blog. I’ve seen many people recommend it as a way to get your family story out there and attract cousins and keep in touch with family, but I think another valuable exercise for me will be to record and summarize my research. Summarizing research leads to analysis and insight. Recording my research provides an easy way to see what I’ve accomplished and how I got there. I’m also hoping that writing this blog will improve my research habits!