Knocking Down Brick-walls with AncestryDNA Testing It's been 5 years since I posted about my genealogy adventures. A lot has happened. The family has grown by leaps and bounds. We've added a couple of grand children to the family tree. The newest to arrive is our first grandson born on September 4th, 2014. The first born into the family who will carry on the Mobley surname one more generation. I've recent done the AncestryDNA test in hopes of breaking down a couple of my genealogy brick walls . I'm a bit disappointed .to say the least. My closest connection with my AncestryDNA is a 5th cousin. There are a couple of matches but they don't have a clue how we are connected so I am sure I have been pushed to the back burning of their minds until maybe one day I may have some information that will help them. One of the first connections I contacted did help me get back one more generation on my Jewish line. But I can only prove that through our
The power of genealogy message boards is unbelievable. What you might not know..Read below. 1) Messages posted to a message board stay on the server as long as that server is in existence . Case in point Ancestry.com. I started doing my own research back in 1999. Every message I ever posted is still right there for the world to see ten years later. 2) One of the most important things about using a message board is to have a current email address. What do I mean by this? I know with the way the internet has changed over the years people change internet providers frequently . Maybe you upgraded to high speed and gave up your old email address. This can be a big mistake. Let me explain why..... You posted a message trying to find a connection to your elusive KLEIN ancestor. You didn't have much info at the time except for a name, date of birth and a place of birth that your grandmother KLEIN had written down in a journal about her favorite aunt. Sometimes that's all the info any