When Dillman families crossed the Atlantic, they brought their trades with them. This article examines the working lives documented across 94 family groups — from tailors and piano makers to stonemasons and toymakers…
For nearly three decades, Legacy Family Tree was a staple of serious genealogical research — a feature-rich, professionally developed desktop application that cost…
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is the only type of DNA that traces a single, unbroken line of maternal ancestry — your mother’s mother’s mother’s line, extending back through time…
Artificial intelligence has arrived in genealogy — not as a distant future technology but as a practical, available tool that researchers are using right now…
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…)
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