Colleen Murray

A book review on this recently published DNA book

I recently received notification that my blog has been chosen as one of the Top 100 Genealogy Blogs this year by Feedspot. It’s always...

Have you taken a DNA test, but struggle to do anything with your results? Have you sat through other DNA webinars, but failed to apply...

Title page of my presentation "How to Use DNA to Identify an Ancestor"

I recently finished Libby Copeland's book, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing is Upending Who We Are, which came out about this time last...

I've received my certificate for the "All-DNA Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum" that I completed in 2020 through the Salt Lake...

I just handed in my last assignment for the All-DNA Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum course, offered through the Salt Lake Institute...

If you’re like me, you are staying home as much as possible right now, to social-distance and help “flatten the curve”. It’s easy to get...

Do you remember when you first started working on your family tree? Your goal was probably to enter immediate relatives, and then move...

I first tested my father’s Y-DNA back in 2014- and it wasn’t until a few weeks ago, five years later, that he finally received a match...

I just listened to a fascinating discussion on CBC Radio: The Current on personal genome sequencing. Although we have become used to...

Image Courtesy FamilyTreeDNA www.familytreedna.com Several years ago, my husband gave me a DNA test as a birthday gift. I did the cheek...

It’s a snowy day in Edmonton, and even though I do have to venture out to the Land Titles office to pick up some information for my house...