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Behold’s Genetic Relationship Notation (BGRN) – Revised - Blog entry by lkessler - 12 Aug 2018
... of years ago, I introduced the horrible acronym BGRN to represent a new notation for DNA relationships which I extended to also include non-genetic relationships. Using this notation, one can define precisely how one person is related to a second person. Using just the notation, I can programmatically determine the expected amount of DNA ...
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My Living DNA Results Are In - Blog entry by lkessler - 6 Aug 2018
Today, I received an email from Living DNA that my test results are now available. After watching several of the RootsTech livestreamed presentations by David Nicholson and Hannah Morden of Living DNA in February, their promise of their upcoming Family Networks capability to reconstruct ...
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New MyHeritage DNA Filtering System - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Jun 2018
Today, MyHeritage announced a new feature – a brand new filtering system for DNA matches. They describe it here on the MyHeritage Blog. They say they are rolling out the feature gradually, so you may not see it yet. I can see the new features and I thought I’d give it a run-through. They now show me having 1 close family (my uncle), 148 extended family (I ...
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Another attempt with Genome Mate Pro - Blog entry by lkessler - 9 Jun 2018
... Pro (GMP) is a program written by Rebecca Walker and is designed to organize all your DNA matches and match information. This is not a simple program to use, but it supposedly does a lot for you. I have DNA tested now at FamilyTreeDNA (autosomal, BigY-500, mt-full), 23andMe, MyHeritage
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Where is Genealogy Software Headed? - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Mar 2018
... and Findmypast to share and Sync data with them. Then there’s companies like Living DNA figuring out how to link our DNA relatives together with our genealogical relatives. Eventually we may have one big master genealogy/DNA tree. But with that in mind, it’s especially important to have genealogy ...
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A Tale of Four DNA Tests - Blog entry by lkessler - 21 Mar 2018
This morning, I received my DNA test results from AncestryDNA. It completes my quadfecta and now gives me results with the big four: Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, MyHeritage DNA and now Ancestry
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Join Me for #genchatDNA Tomorrow - Blog entry by lkessler - 16 Mar 2018
Both #genchat and #genchatDNA are Twitter chat sessions which meet periodically and gather together genealogists to provide their set of insights about the current topic. Tomorrow, I am the #genchatDNA featured “Answerer”. If you are a genealogist who is also on ...
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DMT Now Reads @MyHeritage DNA Segment Match Files - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Mar 2018
I’ve just released version 2.1 of DMT which includes support for MyHeritage DNA’s new segment download files. MyHeritage DNA made some big announcements last week at #RootsTech, and included among those was the ability to download your match list and your segment match list. Double Match Triangulator reads two or more ...
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Day 4 – #RootsTech –The Final Day (Sob!) - Blog entry by lkessler - 3 Mar 2018
... – Henry Louis Gates Jr. CeCe Moore followed Dr. Gates and told us how DNA is exploding. “Advancing Your Genealogy Research With DNA” by Anna Swayne who works at Ancestry. She gave a really nice slide of the AncestryDNA Science Team: Curt Witcher once ...
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Day 3 – #RootsTech – #NotAtRootsTech – #Genchat - Blog entry by lkessler - 2 Mar 2018
... community big time! Congrats to all the big companies. The 5 big DNA companies got together on Day 1 of RootsTech. They will compete and cooperate with each other and maybe the ultimate result will be one big DNA tree integrated with the one big shared family tree. Wouldn’t that be something! Watched ...
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