Hello

My name is Beth Ellyn McClendon and I’ve been doing genetic genealogy for nearly 2 decades. I spent my career in tech solving complex problems at scale, trying to pull meaning out of fragmented and contradictory data – always looking for a signal in the noise.

Genealogy is no different. Records conflict. Memories fade. Stories drift. The truth only emerges with patience and persistence. Finding birth parents, translating diaries, piecing together lives from scattered records – the work is fundamentally the same.