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Strategies for finding biological grandparents using DNA matches?

I need some advice to help track down my biological grandmother. My father was adopted in 1920 and died in 2000 without knowing the identity of his biological parents. I have his birth certificate but I am not certain that the name of his mother is…
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Are these two signatures from the same person?

Are there any standard techniques for comparing signatures to determine the likelihood that they are or are not by the same person? When my great-5-grandfather Daniel Cooper signed his will in 1792, his signature looked like this: 42 years earlier,…
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Interpreting (yet another) 17th century German church record?

Very much on the same topic as an earlier question, Interpreting 17th century German church record?, I have found a lead for further research (quite obvious lead but my subscription on Archion had run out): Two years after the birth of Henning…
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Using "shared DNA" column in 23andme for triangulation?

On the 23andme site when you compare dna with a relative there is a column labeled "Shared DNA" and the description on their site says Shared DNA means that you and your two genetic relatives share a portion of the same DNA segment. By clicking…
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What software can reliably store and manage non-linear (eg non-blood or remarried) relatives?

In follow-up to this answer on How to handle indirect family?, what software tools can reliably manage "non-traditional" relations (remarriages, adoptions, step-relatives, etc)? As a part B to this question, what considerations would need to be…
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I'm a 2nd cousin to someone, my brother is a distant cousin?

My brother and I have both been tested on 23andme. There are many people that show up at different relationships and I'm trying to understand how there can be large differences in predicted relationships. We are of Ashkenazi heritage and I've…
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How can I turn a family tree on Geni.com into a printable PDF report?

I've been building a family tree on Geni.com. How can I turn that into a printable report, including all profile photos?
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Seeking to verify 1862 Scottish marriage, birth and death records for a Henry Clifford stationed with the Royal Navy at Leith

In researching Henry Clifford (b 1839, Ewell, Surrey), grandparents' names in lieu of parents' names disallows certainty of his marriage to a Jane Young in Edinburgh 1862. Henry volunteered w/the Royal Naval in Wales in 1861, and was a 2nd class…
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Seeking info on Phoebe Paine, born 9 Aug 1762

I am seeking information on my 5*great grandmother, Phoebe Paine. She was born 9 Aug 1762 and married Elijah Hannum in Belchertown, MA on 4 Mar 1792. I already have information on her husband, his line, and their children but all I have for Phoebe…
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Assessing the frequency of surname in an 18th century English parish

I have a set of marriage and baptism records for an 18th century/early 19th century English parish, and want to assess the probability that the participants are related in some way, before I spend hours and days tracking all mentions of the surnames…
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Can group of matches on same segment with cM value in mid 20s be out-of-range?

WARNING: This is a question that involves endogamous genetic genealogy. (Not applicable to "normal" or "standard" DNA evaluation). I am still struggling to find some statistical limits/boundaries for evaluating my endogamous ancestry. Maybe I need…
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Tracing residence in England during WW2?

This notice from the Cheltenham Chronicle published on October 11, 1947 refers to Mrs. Augusta Elliott as "formerly of High-street, Cheltenham". I am trying to determine when she might have lived in or visited the area. A rough timeline: 1855…
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Why are MyHeritage atDNA SNPs higher than other test sites?

I have accumulated DNA segment match information from ftDNA, GEDmatch, and MyHeritage. It is just recently that I've added MyHeritage DNA donors data, and I've found that the total number of matching SNPs, for a segment, are two to four times the…
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Determining shared maternal or paternal lineage via shared DNA segments?

If DNA cousins and I share the exact same segment of DNA, does it always mean we're related via the same side of the family? Background: I have taken DNA tests with National Geographic, Ancestry, and 23&me. I really like the more complete, detailed…
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Finding out what church a 19th century English family belonged to?

I am trying to research the birth of a child in 1864 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire (England), and have run into a problem with the lack of a baptismal record. There was only one parish (All Saint's) for this town at that time, as far as I know, and…
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