A recent Perplexity.ai search led me to find letters written by one Samuel Bradley Wiggin, who had mentioed in one or more of the letters O.R. Singleton, the Mississippi lawyer, politician, plantation owner and slaveholder who signed Robert Jefferson’s freedom papers. A man who, despite serving in both the U.S. Congress and in the Confederate Congress, there seems to be little out there to find.

So, let's get down to it. How does this DNA matching work? First, a centiMorgan is a unit of measurement used to determine the distance from scientifically indentified positions, or markers, on each of our 23 chromosomes. It is not a physical measurement, but a tool to show closely we are related to the matches we receive in our DNA test results. It is used by all the testing companies. DNA Inheritance Patterns Each of us receives exactly 50 percent of our DNA from each par

Like the old adage says, "Buyer beware." Even if you aren't actually spending money to obtain family history information, it's still prudent to pay close attention to what you find. Someone related to me somehow has identified this photo of a woman standing next to a man who is seated. Yes, they are probably husband and wife. But are they the right husband and wife? The unknown cousin has posted this photo on Find A Grave and has identified them as John Frederick "Fritz" Reed

In my last post, I discussed the latest addition to my photography collection: Old glass negatives from 1900. From the information written on the paper sleeves these all came in, I have been able to piece together who most of the people are in these photographs – one family, in particular, in fact. Introducing Rhea Melissa Barker. Born in 1897, she is about 3 years old and she is sitting, apparently, in the patient chair in her father's doctor office in Troy, Bradford C