If you use DNA to investigate your family tree, you know how valuable shared matches are. I think perhaps if we knew that we "shared a match" a to historical document such as a will, probate court case, pension file, or a piece of land, siblings living with only one parent and many other pieces of information we use to create a story of a life, think of how much richer our collaboration with fellow researchers would be! In some ways, Ancestry hints can be used this way, if someone has uploaded a photo, story, transcription, etc. Contacting these researcher relatives can be fruitful! I sometimes contact those who connect my relatives to historical documents or do other work on a profile where I'm working. Again, these researchers are often relatives. Learning the " Boncella Method " this past weekend, in advance of our Genetic Genealogy group meeting, I was pleased to see a new way to look at shared DNA matches. Lately all the talk from genealogy companies are ...