Normally when I think of January I think of ice, snow and doing my family history research. However, this year SW Missouri is very dry and hovering between 45 and 70. It's distracting to look outside and see buds on our trees and hearing birdsong, but we can't let another month get away without showing some progress.
With the use of DNA my sister and I discovered that we share the same mother and father. That didn't use to be a question, but now-a-days we don't always know. I just hope that someday the World Family Tree will be able to remove the wonder when doing our research.
Like many, if not most, of American people, our Schnee and Christiansen lines become lost in the 'old country'. Schnee because of its rarity and Christiansen for its huge family line where the males were called Christian and girls Ane Marie. DNA may give us pointers to guide us, but until then it's a case of good records and concentrated research.
We do get hints at Ancestry.com and even FamilySearch.org is beginning to offer them. However, as any researchers will admit, you still have to prove the hint is right. Making the hints just a finger pointing into the wind!
