In 2016 when I attended the Nebraska State Genealogical Society Conference, featured speaker Joshua Taylor made mention of those ancestors who become our lifelong research projects. Mine is my great-great grandmother, Emma Anna Murphy. I wrote about Emma constantly in the previous iteration of my ...
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How DNA Changed My Family History
With the availability of DNA testing, I've seen quite a shift in what I always thought I knew about my family. It started in 1989. I saw a photo my grandmother had of her family and wanted to learn more about it. I found out that the little girl in the picture was my great-grandmother, Nina Gertrude ...