A good night sleep and a few days away from the problem does wonders. Renewed and ready to tackle my genealogy problem, I started by looking for George #1’s marriage in different locations. I looked online at Family Search Wiki for Livingston County vital records. I checked Livingston County, Illinois for historical and genealogical societies … More Part 2 – Y-DNA puzzle
Lately I have been focusing on DNA research, so I was excited when a new match came in for my husband’s Y-DNA. Since he can trace his Scott ancestry back to William Scott from Hatfield, Massachusetts in the 1600’s with paper documentation, I assumed this new match would be descended from William Scott as well. … More A Y-DNA Puzzle
DNA is the hot new research tool in genealogy. Yet it is only as effective as any other tool when used in conjunction with other documentation. Sometimes it can give you information that you would have no other way of finding as with my case below. Many years ago, I found a birth record for … More Pace DNA Discovery
Most people think that when you find a certified death record in your genealogy hunt, all the information is correct. That is not always the case. It depends on who supplied the information, and sometimes the informant was wrong. Could be the birth date, location or maybe the parents are listed incorrectly. Which is why … More An incorrect death record
Once I was introduced to the wealth of information located in land records, I started using them regularly in my genealogy research. Usually the husband was buying or selling land which almost always gives his location and sometimes his wife’s name. If he was selling it to one of his children, it may name then … More Wonderful land records
Lynn Scott Genealogist 