One of the most important sources in researching former Dutch citizens are church books. While many church books have been indexed and are available online, the Roman Catholic church books of Diemen, a town nearby Amsterdam, were not. Because I have used indexes made by many other people throughout the years, I thought I should…
Month: May 2020
While I have examined DNA inheritance across low numbers of generations in an earlier blog post, it can also be useful to understand what DNA inheritance looks like across several generations. I therefore present: some more data on inheritance from 4x-greatgrandparents, all the way up to 8x-greatgrandparents! As we go further back in history, the…
DNA research has seen a surge in popularity over the past years. Test takers want to discover more about their health risks, ethnicity estimates or focus on finding other cousins, in an attempt to verify their genealogical paper trail. Many who focus on researching their ancestry want to know as much as possible about all…