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I’m pleased to announce the winners of the 11th annual GenSoftReviews Users Choice Awards. Users of genealogy software go to GenSoftReviews to rate and review their software and say what they like and don’t like about it. These awards are given to software that has achieved at least a 4.00 out of 5 ...

MyHeritage has a very nice feature in their chromosome browser. If three or more people all triangulate over a segment, the browser will place a rectangle with rounded corners over the triangulating segment for you. These form a triangulation group. All of the people you select must all match each other on that ...

It’s already day-old news. GEDmatch has been purchased by Verogen. Less than 24 hours and the alarmist headlines regarding @VerogenBio and #GEDmatch are already driving me nuts — Cairenn (@cairennoid) December 10, 2019 For some of the reporting on this, see the following news posts: A ...

In Version 3 of Double Match Triangulator, I added the ability to specify the smallest segment match that DMT would consider to be part of a valid triangulation (default 7 cM) and the smallest segment match that DMT would consider to be a valid single match (default 15 cM). A situation that can happen when ...

Last night, I attended a talk of a prominent genealogy speaker. This is a speaker who keynotes conferences and attracts thousands to her talks. Diahan Southard gave her talk “Your Slice of the DNA Pie”, and I watched it on my computer at home. It was a presentation of the Virtual Genealogical Association, ...

In my last blog post, I analyzed my segment matches at 23andMe with Double Match Triangulator,. This time let’s do the same but with my GEDmatch segment matches. Getting Segment Match Data from GEDmatch At GEDmatch you need their Tier 1 services (currently $10 a month) in order to download your segment ...

I am going to show you how I am using Double Match Triangulator, and some of the information it provides, at least for me. My own DNA match data is difficult to analyze. I come from a very endogamous population on all my sides that originates in Romania and Ukraine. The endogamy gives me many more matches than ...

I’m working on a series of articles to show how I am using the new 3.0 version of Double Match Triangulator to analyze my own segment match data. As much as I’d like you to believe that I’ve developed DMT for the good of genetic genealogists everywhere, I humbly admit that I actually developed it so ...

It’s been 35 years since GEDCOM 1.0 was released to the genealogical software development community in 1984. It’s been 20 years since GEDCOM 5.5.1, the last official specification by FamilySearch was released on October 2, 1999. Five days ago, October 2, 2019, the gedcom.org website was renewed containing ...

I’m cleaning up my directories after over 3 years of development of Double Match Triangulator. When I released Version 1 of DMT back in August 2016, I had it write information about the run to a log file, primarily so that I could debug what was going on. But I realized it is useful for the user as it could ...