Definitely! I'm glad you're open to it, because I've made so many connections that way. People with a passion for genealogy tend to be very helpful, if there's any information they can provide. After my mother died, I felt like it reopened my connection to that side of the family, which had been so abruptly shut.

I also believe there are ways to take your results from one test and upload them onto another site to make the analysis go further. However, I haven't tried to do that.

When talking to family members, listen to everything, especially anything that's unusual or stands out. I was able to figure out an entire branch of my husband's maternal family because of a specific family story that told me that they'd been descended from a family of doctors in a small Connecticut town. Fortunately, back in the early 1800s, most towns only had one doctor!

On my dad's side, his biological grandfather had never married his grandmother, and in fact, she'd continued using her late husband's name (Wilson). I was able to identify my biological great-grandfather, George W. Eutsler, from two facts: his unusual last name and his profession, which was running a lumber mill.

So take notes of anything they tell you. That unique information will help.