Ask the Experts with Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak – Hey, y’all, look who I’m going to be chatting with this month! Diahan Southard – Your DNA Guide

I Was Mortified When I Found Out My Parents Are Cousins but They Don’t Seem To Care – Kind of surprised people are still getting surprised by this stuff. Kissing cousins are so much more common than many grasp.

Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud – While the results aren’t all that surprising, it interesting that someone took such a deep dive into this topic! You might have noticed in your research that when people get older, they get sometimes much older. Many elderly, for instance, keep rounding up over time across census records so that someone who’s, say, 89 winds up looking as if they’re 101. Well, this explores that issue. #genealogy

Shadow Boxes of Almudena Cemetery – Wish shadow boxes were more common in cemeteries. Would be interesting to see what ancestors (and their survivors) decided to include.

Parents are finding baby name ideas by visiting cemeteries – “I am a gravestone baby.”👶😮