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Friday, February 21, 2014

DNA Project How To

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The most important first step in a DNA project is to set your goals. Randomly test individuals carrying the same surname, for instance, wi...
Monday, February 10, 2014

My Rootstech 2014 Highlights

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Something Spencer Wells and I have in common. He said visiting this exhibit influenced his career choice. I was inspired to study Art Hist...
Saturday, February 8, 2014

atDNA: What Do Cousin Matches Look Like

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The RootsTech 2014 presentation on DNA was very interesting, and I plan on watching it again when the video becomes available. I do think on...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Dividing People: The Forgey Slaves Hawkins County, TN

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James Forgey will "their children may be divided" Last Thursday I went the NGSQ study group which was in the virtual world of ...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Too Many Sales of One Plot of Land?

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Forgey sales deeds Knox County, Tennessee from the County Index book I've been examing the new databases at Ancestry, the ones resul...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

How long does it take to make a family tree?

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A first cousin of mine needed help researching his maternal family tree. He wanted to know whether his grandfather was Native American be...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Binders vs. Books

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Here are the books I've printed seen near an oxygen tank. See the same tank and binders below to get a better idea of compactness the ...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Genealogy Resolutions and Year in Review

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The End of the Alexander Forgey paper trail  is 1807, picking up from here in 2014 Happy New Year 2014!  It's been such a fruitf...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Coming up to speed with MtDNA

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I received my Full Sequence MtDNA results in December. Of course I had no matches at this level, because so few people have tested at thi...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The short life of Isis Forgey

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My Aunt Isis lived to be about 5 months old, but her short has always fascinated me. She was born while my Grandfather Charles Lynn Forgey s...
Sunday, November 24, 2013

Roadwork Books lead to more Brainstorming

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Andrew Forgey Knox County, TN Roadwork book 1802 I ordered a microfilm of the Roadwork books for Knox County, Tennessee from the Family ...