After much pre-publicity, DNA Ancestry 
is finally here.
Since I haven’t tried this yet myself, and it’s pretty much news for all of us, I know about this much:
You buy a kit, swab the inside of your cheek, just like in the CSI shows, send it back to Ancestry and they will process your results and mail them back to you. Your results can also be added to an Ancestry database to be compared with other people’s results or be kept totally private. DNA matches are communicated anonymously.
Please open this user-friendly pdf called DNA Ancestry and read all about the process. They say it as well as it can be said.
What DNA Ancestry Tests Can Reveal
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Reportedly, Legacy 7.0, that’s due out soon, will be doing something different with Sources. I can hardly wait to find out what.
I’ve heard there’s some connection to Elizabeth Shown Mill’s work, Evidence Explained, which is about source citation models. That shouldn’t affect what I’m going to talk about here. Not unless they completely re-design the Assigned Sources window and kill my present use of it.
If you’re using the digital component of the MRIN Filing System, or even if you’re not, you may have realized by now that it’s easy to link your digital images if you want to. It’s not necessary, but Legacy does make that possible. Just browse to your source image and link it up. Make sure you distinguish between Master Source and Source Detail images. In other words, if you have a Death Certificate for an individual, that’s a Source Detail image, not a Master Source image. …[continued]
My cousin, Sam, has some new companions who have just come on board.
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Do we believe in ghosts? Of course, we do. We’re genealogists. Ghosts are our specialty.
Sometimes I can feel one tapping me hard on the shoulder saying, “No, not 1852. It was 1855.” Or “No, not his brother. It was his uncle.” Sometimes I imagine they’re twisting in their graves with everything we get wrong.
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If you are still keeping your file backups in the same place as your computer, you may be asking for trouble. Fire, floods or theft, although unexpected, do happen, and it only takes once to lose it all. Mozy has a great online backup service. After installing and activating a small program, your choice of files are encrypted for privacy and automatically backed up to an online server.
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