If you’ve received your DNA results from a genealogy DNA website, but have little or no genealogical research experience, this article provides guidance about how to discover what and who your DNA matches are revealing to you.

If DNA matches without family trees seem to be posing obstacles in your research, read on for tips on how to leverage DNA mystery matches to open new discoveries on your genetic genealogical journey.

DNA evidence is essential if you truly want to know the people who’ve come together throughout time to create you. Knowing how genealogical DNA tests work and how to interpret data they provide opens you to infinite facets of the biological story that’s led to your Earthly existence.

This article explains how you’re related to your ‘distant’ and not so distant cousins and explores the value of interviewing cousins as part of your DNA and genealogy research.

Cornelia McDavid was born into slavery in Madison County, Alabama around the year of 1851. This is the story of how I discovered our genetic connection and our familial ties to the American Slave Trade.