Several years ago I took my first DNA test through Ancestry.com. The test was a mitochondrial test which means that it took both my maternal and paternal DNA and provided me with the results. Once I received the results, I quickly found that trying to figure out which side of my family they matched to was quite difficult, so I purchased tests for my parents. When my parent's DNA test results were provided (again, mitochondrial tests), the resulting matches made a little more

2022 marks the 20th year that I have been researching my family's history. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was going through a box of my late maternal grandmother's things that the genealogy bug bit me; it was while I was going through old notes and newspaper clippings that I realized that I really didn't know as much about my family as I thought that I did. So began a journey that has lasted for 2 decades, and will probably last for as many more as I have here in this w