The Dillman Family Association’s 94 documented Family Groups reveal the first statistical portrait of the Dillman name — where it comes from, where it went, how it was spelled, and what the numbers reveal about the families who carried it…
If your genealogical DNA research has focused primarily on AncestryDNA or FamilyTreeDNA, Living DNA may not yet be on your radar. It should be…
Of the three types of genealogically useful DNA — autosomal, Y-DNA, and mitochondrial — X-DNA is the least understood and the most frequently overlooked…
Few developments in recent years have raised more questions among genealogists than the growing use of consumer DNA databases by law enforcement…
Cincinnati, Ohio, is one of the great German-American cities of the United States — and for researchers tracing Dillman lines through Ohio and the surrounding states, it is a productive research stop…
If you’ve spent any time in genealogy software or online family tree platforms, you’ve almost certainly encountered the term GEDCOM. You may have clicked “Export (more…)
Y-DNA testing is the most powerful tool available to genealogists for tracing the direct paternal line — the father’s father’s father’s line stretching back through history…
On February 2, 2025, MyHeritage released the most significant overhaul of its ethnicity analysis system since the platform launched DNA testing…
The Dillman Family Association (DFA) blog is about to get a lot busier. Over the next several weeks we are publishing a substantial series of (more…)
If you’ve spent years building your family tree — carefully citing sources, chasing down courthouse records, and untangling brick walls — you’ve probably heard of WikiTree…
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