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43 Questions

What is written over some of these Irish birth records?

Why would Y-DNA matches have different paternal haplogroups?

Making sense of conflicting death dates for Juliet D. (Strong) Wilder?

How to interpret this19th century Ukrainian Jewish birth index result?

Is longest cM a better predictor of relatedness than total cM for Ashkenazi Jews?

What are these words in the 1841 will of Elisha Strong?

Who are the Campbells in this document?

What are the dates on these documents?

Where to find information about a 19th c. Louisiana/Mississippi circuit judge

What was William H. Clements' military service shown on this military grave registration?

How to understand differences in paternal haplogroups from different companies?

What does "ads" stand for in a Chancery Court record index?

Is there a tool to generate a parent's DNA sequence from their children's?

What did it mean in the 1800s to be called Colonel in the South?

Who was the father of Thomas Jocelyn/Joslin who emigrated to Massachusetts in the Increase (1635)

Why do parent and child share more cM than full siblings?

What is the meaning of the handwritten notation on the pension record of Charles Clements?

Who were the wives of John Ervin (1791-1843)?

How to interpret "in descent from"

How to interpret my having ethnicities inconsistent with my parents?

Seeking tools to create tree of specific individuals in gedcom

Interpreting the Trussell Family Tree

What is the significance of the name at the end of this 1843 advertisement?

What Polish village is named in this document?

Reconciling mid-18th century US marriage records for James Lea and Ann/Anne Tolbert/Herndon?

What are the chances of having autosomal DNA from an ancestor N generations back?

How to find a slater named Patrick M Golden in 1870 records?

What was the career of Patrick Golden on the 1870 census?

What information would be on a 1915 Arkansas death certificate?

Why would I match someone in a region neither of my parents do?