Using DNA was the only way to answer the family mystery of who was the mother of Loulie Clarke. Kentucky vital records were gone and no one was alive to tell the truth.

If you’ve ever thought about hiring someone to help with your family history, you’ve probably discovered there are multiple flavors of genealogists—and no, they don’t all do the same thing!

When I talk to people about genealogy, I often hear:“I built a tree on Ancestry.com in 20 minutes!” Hate to break it to you, but that tree was probably someone else’s work—copied, unverified, and riddled with errors. It’s like claiming you “wrote a book” when all you did was photocopy it. (Or used AI to create the whole thing and claim it as your own.) In my own family, I’ve seen at least three different women falsely named as my 3rd great-grandmother.

The pilot scheduled for that fateful flight was Lieutenant Thomas Pihl Jordan, a daring aviator who held Norwegian pilot certificate no. 27. But Jordan wasn't confident about this mission. In the days before departing Kjeller for the flight to Værnes and the major military aviation exercise, he expressed deep distrust of his assigned aircraft. He called it the "coffin" and told his friends it would "probably become his coffin in the literal sense."

The pursuit to find graves of my ancestors has led me to Maple Grove Cemetery in Wichita, KS. There I found my 2xgreats were buried without headstones.

Many people know their siblings, aunts, uncles, and maybe a few cousins. But DNA and genealogy research often reveal connections that go much further — sometimes to people you’ve never met, yet share a slice of history (and DNA!).n my case, one of those connections is Didrik Tønseth — a Norwegian cross-country skier who competed in the Olympics and won the Gold Medal for 4x 10km relay in 2018. Didrik is my 4th cousin on my father’s Norwegian line.

My great-great-grandmother, Emma Charlotta Berggren (1851–1946) , had a pretty rough life. Although I’ve mentioned her before, I want to...

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