I am getting too involved in creating / verifying other people’s pedigrees. I get started on researching a DNA match to try to determine how we might be related and a number of hours later, I either hit a brick wall or have proven the lineage of a new cousin.

Again, from a prior post, verification is being done with Birth, Marriage, Death records, both Federal and State Census records, and obituaries (which themselves require added verification.

Of the (at latest count) 260 DNA matches I am researching; I have been able to confirm 157.

Since I have done DNA testing on Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilyTreeDNA, 23andMe, and LivingDNA I will research across all of these sites plus get help from FamilySearch. I have a catch-all tree on FamilyTreeMaker / Ancestry which I use to build a DNA Cousin’s family and try to determine how it connects to mine. I have given that tree the descriptive name of BrickWalls.

Just to make things more interesting, I have been using MyHeritage to search and add to my known tree in that service. As with whatever I build on Ancestry which syncs to FamilyTreeMaker, I use FamilyTreeBuilder to sync the MyHeritage research.

I repeat:

EQUALS