The Results Are In....

If you have been following the ongoing saga of my Ancestry House Party, you will be pleased to know the results are finally in! If you are just joining us on this ride, you can click HERE to be taken to the original posting.

I was excited to receive this in my inbox late last night. Was I a former warrior riding in to save her country, a glamorous princess that lost her crown due to some cad who unsurped our empire, or maybe I had a rich great, great granddad that was going to show up? Not to mention at long last I will prove I am 100% NOT the father!

Okay that went too far. We all know I am not the father, but I so just want to say that once in my life! Sorry to disappoint, my readers, I am none of the above. I am just 85% Irish, who's ancestors traveled from Ireland to this great country many moons ago. Darn it! I so wanted to be a princess. Maybe in an another life.

Awww I am so chubby and cute :) Once I got my results in I got to start building my family tree. Which is not a chore, but a mission. Our family tree has so many forks and sporks (yes sporks) I am amazed Ancestry didn't send me an email saying that wasn't a tree I was building!

The cool thing is you can add pictures, records, and all kinds of information on each person in your tree. As you can tell our tree is getting bigger as I keep working on it.

The neat thing is when you add someone and their name pops up in public record a green leaf appears next to the name. You click on it, see the public record, and can add it to the person! Take my daughter who passed away. I listed her death and the green leaf popped up. I clicked on it and there was two public records listing her death in Public Grave Listing and Social Security Records.

They also compare your DNA to others in their system. I got quite a few results for 2nd, 3rd, even 4th cousins! It tells you the match percentage and you can click over and see their tree.

Ancestry also provides an inner email service so other members can easily contact you to check out each other trees to see where and if they cross. I received an email today from a possible second cousin. We are comparing trees, trying to see where we cross branches at right now!

I am having a blast doing my tree and gaining information every step of the way. This has got to be the best House Party I have done by far. Everyone wants to know where they came from and Ancestry makes it fun, easy to do. Next up is the House Party. I am excited to see what else they have planned!