I spent my days off taking care of my babies , cleaning house and managing to look at some of the matches from the DNA test. I was very excited by the matches. I think i ended up with 93 pages which equaled out to like almost 5000 matches to go through. I know that somewhere in my family that these people are related some way and some how, its just doing the research and talking to the people to figure out where. I mean the matches are from your own DNA results so that match must be there somewhere. On some of them it also lists the surnames you have in common, and of course I do have a Smith surname as an ancestor so nearly all of my matches has the last name. I found several that I knew for a fact was family also. There is no way right now to search the results but you can leave notes on them and it will sort those that you have viewed, that has hints, or those that have been starrred. So i have been just putting notes and clicking on the star when I have sent the person a message on ancestry or when I have spoken with them.
I have also been working on my family tree. I have split the family tree into maternal and paternal family trees to try to make it easier on myself. I am going to leave the one up on ancestry.com for a while that has both because right now it has the DNA results linked to it. I think I will stay more focused by splitting the trees instead of having one extra large tree. I have spent a lot of time on family tree maker the past several days getting reaquainted with the forms also.
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