DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy

It’s definitely a red-letter day.

Dr. Paul Maier, the lead author on the new paper Mitotree: The Un...

Robert Vernon Estes was my first cousin, my father’s brother’s son. I’m named after him, but I never knew him. He died years before I was born.

Robert, known as Bobby, was born on March 27, 19...

In 2012, Pauline d’Entremont and Clark Robbins founded the Mius-dEntremont DNA Project at FamilyTreeDNA. Denis Beauregard later adopted the project after Pauline retired and Clark passed away.

I want to thank all three administrators, but especially Pau...

Mother’s Day was Sunday, and my family was close in heart, but not actually here that day. After I had a nice visit with them, I settled in for a quiet day of writing and quilting. The evening before, I had published, Mom’s Quilt, an article honoring my ...

I wasn’t going to write anything for Mother’s Day this year, because Mother’s Day is bittersweet for so many of us. Such powerful and sometimes overwhelming emotions braided together – love, longing, gratitude, and loss. But then, while changing the sheets, I opened the chifforobe and saw her quilts.

I reached out and touched them, closed my eyes for just a second, and...