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My Top Programming and Genealogy Q & As - Blog entry by lkessler - 27 Dec 2021
As I was preparing GenSoftReviews for the annual User Choice Awards that I announce on January 1st or 2nd, I realized that I hadn’t checked the site’s links in a number of years. So I started up my link checker Xenu’s Link Sleuth and let it rip. I was amazed at the number of links I needed to fix. It took ...
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5 Years Ago Today, I Retired - Blog entry by lkessler - 24 Nov 2021
Exactly 5 years ago today, which coincided with my 60th birthday, several hundred co-workers, friends and family met in the large conference room at the Manitoba Hydro head office in downtown Winnipeg on my last day of work to help see me off into “retirement”. I had a wonderful 41 years with the company ...
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Your DNA Raw Data May Have Changed - Blog comment by lkessler - 21 Nov 2021
Yinwang: I compared both by RSID and by position. In one comparison between two files, for example, I noted to myself that 299 RSIDs had changed at the same position, and that 3 RSIDs had different positions. But mentioning that in the article would have been off-topic and would only have complicated what I ...
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Your DNA Raw Data May Have Changed - Blog comment by yinwang888 - 20 Nov 2021
Oh and what about genome versions, do they differ?
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Your DNA Raw Data May Have Changed - Blog comment by yinwang888 - 20 Nov 2021
Very nice write up. Thanks!
Do you think it's possible that some of the changes you observe are because of changes in the underlying rsid SNP database? I have in my own research sometimes stumbled on SNP rsids that where merged or renamed. Do you make your comparisons based on rsid or position?
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Your DNA Raw Data May Have Changed - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Nov 2021
To my surprise, I downloaded my raw data from my 23andMe DNA test and it was different from my earlier downloads. I would have thought your raw data from a company wouldn’t change. I took one DNA test there, so my results should be determined once, and that’s what should be represented in my raw data. I ...
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by lkessler - 10 Nov 2021
tsturg: Yes. See my blog post from 10 Apr 2020: Determining the Accuracy of DNA Tests: https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=3305 - I've now added this into my "followups" at the end of the article.
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Conflicting Information in GEDCOM - Blog entry by lkessler - 9 Nov 2021
An issue about GEDCOM has once again come to my attention. In the GEDCOM 5.5.1 standard they write: Conflicting event dates and places should be represented by placing them in separate event structures with appropriate source citations rather than by placing them under the same enclosing event. I ...
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My Computer History - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Nov 2021
Prompted by this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Genealogy post by Randy Seaver, I thought I’d like to document this in a blog post. 1971: As I entered high school (grade 10), my super-smart neighbor and friend who was two grades ahead of me recommended I follow his lead and get into programming at ...
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Your DNA Raw Data May Have Changed - Blog comment by jwlong - 30 Nov 2021