What It Was Really Like To Find My Biological Father: love and persistence find a way
The following is a personal account of one of our clients who shares her experience of finding her biological father. You can read her story…
Adoption & Genetic Genealogy
6 Signs of Misattributed Parentage in Your Genetic Family Tree
While DNA testing and genetic evidence are certainly useful for breaking down challenging historic brick walls, the implications of DNA test…
Nine Tips for Successful Adoption Research with Genetic Genealogy
While DNA testing and genetic evidence are certainly useful for breaking down challenging historic brick walls, the implications of DNA test…
How Genealogy Research Provides Comfort After a DNA Surprise
A DNA Surprise is an event in a person's life where they find out their parentage is not what they had always believed. In this article we t…
Legacy Tree Mystery: Miss Mamie – a daughter lost and found
Genealogy adoption mysteries are found in many family trees, with stories and legends about ancestors passed down for generations. Like any …
Technological Advances in Genealogy
Legacy Tree Genealogists’ Gretchen Jorgensen is a Research Teams Manager and specializes in genetic genealogy and DNA analysis. In this ar…
Better Living Through Statistics: What Are The Odds?
The What Are the Odds DNA tool is a free resource to help you compare the probability of relationships with your DNA matches. The advent…
The Biological Journey of DNA Inheritance: Meiosis to Fertilization
Understanding the biologial journey of genetic inheritance can help in the interpretation of DNA evidence for genealogy research. *This arti…