To all of you who visit our website. Thank you.

I am deeply disturbed by an incident that happened a while ago. I gave a lecture in Santa Fe, New Mexico. So a member of the class went and hired someone else in the class and spent all their money on them. The research didn’t reveal anything. Then they came back to me and asked me to do the research. How sad! and how silly.

So what I do now when I’m lecturing is tell everyone that we also do research.

The problem with the above person, is that I couldn’t do the research effectively. Let me explain.

Proper research cost Money. Last week we traveled to Post and Lubbock, Texas. We also traveled and did research in Santa Fe, Santa Rosa, and Ft. Sumner, NM.

I needed to pick up a death certificate from Santa Fe. This took two hours, or I would have to wait by mail for 12 weeks. I then checked Catholic Church records in Santa Rosa. I went to the County Clerk’s office where the staff were very helpful. They did this because we were there in person. The staff has to lift multiple large heavy books. They have no problem with this, but they do by mail.
Then I went to the District Court looking for a 1820’s divorce. You want the full case, not just the decree. These normally include date and place of marriage and list all the children and why the divorce. Back then there was no such thing as a Divorce just because you wanted it. You had to prove there was real problems, like abuse or abandonment.

We then walked the Catholic Cemetery in Santa Rosa and visited the Funeral Home. Unfortunately when this funeral home was brought in 1973, the previous owner took all the records.

Traveling to Ft. Sumner we went through the same process. County Clerk, District Court, Cemetery’s. We found multiple marriage records and Tombstones. It is important to visit the cemetery sites in person because family members are often buried in a Family Plot or very close together. I can’t find that on online.

This funeral home had all their records back to 1923. When I was at the Funeral Home, the Preivious Catholic Priest from Santa Rosa was there. He was very helpful and we then went to the Library and researched newspapers. One of which stated the wife of 4 weeks shot herself in front of her husband in Pintada. He run to his house, garbed his riftle and shot himself. He didn’t die and they took him to El Paso, Texas, Hospital. This was 1934 and had been hidden by the family and never talked about again. We then traveled down dirt roads to Pintada looking at old cemeteries.

Then we were off to Lubbock and Post, Texas, where we found obituaries and tombstones which revealed the information we needed.

This is a brief synopsis of our research trip. And it cost money. We needed to rent a four wheel drive, hotels, food, gas, etc. This is where over half our fee is used for.

We would never have accrued this information except for our research trip. Less than 10% of research information is online.

DNA is fine, but should only be used as a guide to find hard evidence and needs to be handled by an expert.

Just because a DNA test may say you are 50% Indian, does not mean you are 50% Indian. The only thing it proves is that you have at least one Indian Line in your Genealogy. A person does not inherit a certain % of genes from any specific ancestors. Native American is a dominant gene. It could be the great grandmother was Indian, yet because her gene is dominant, 50% of her genes may be passed on indefinitely. Most people would interpret a 50% result to mean that one of the parents are full blooded Indian. This is not true. So one needs to speak with an expert, instead of a commercial company like Ancestry.com or other commercial companies that have paid employees who really only answer questions that they are programed to answer to sell DNA kits.

We speak with the scientists and we know the truth.

So be careful. We are one of the very few who travel to find your ancestors.

And we will save you lots of money.

We do what needs to be done, quickly. It would take you years and hundreds of thousands of dollars to do what we do. We do “who do you think you are” without spending millions of dollars and with 50 researchers.

This is the premium, number one, Genealogy company.

Merlin.

April 13, 2019