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Match Categories at FamilyTreeDNA - Blog entry by lkessler - 14 Jul 2017
One option I didn’t realize existed at FamilyTreeDNA until Jay Sage alerted me. You can selectively hide or show the people whose matches are deemed “Immediate”, “Close”, “Distant” or “Speculative”. Here’s Jay’s instructions: In the upper-right corner of the home screen, mouse over the name and kit number block. A ...
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Do you #Genchat? - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Jul 2017
... miss #genchat on Twitter last night. The questions and answers this week were about DNA testing, starting with MRCAs and then branching out. For those of you who do not know what #genchat is, it is a genealogy based Twitter chat that happens every 2nd Friday night. They tell you more about it at their website genealogygenchat.com and include a schedule of their ...
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The Pickholtz-Diamond Index of DNA Ashkenazi Jewishness - Blog entry by lkessler - 4 Jul 2017
Some of the least reliable information provided by DNA tests are the ethnicity percentages, also called admixtures. After getting my and my uncle’s DNA test results, I posted my ethnicity results. Our Ashkenazi Jewish percentages came in at 79% and 89% at FamilyTreeDNA ...
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False Small Segment Matches at GEDmatch - Blog entry by lkessler - 2 Jul 2017
... and unrelated people to determine what their matching thresholds should be. FamilyTreeDNA will consider two people a match if there is one segment 9 cM or more, or if one segment is 7.69 cM and there are 20 shared cM. So Patricia and I should not be said to be a DNA match at FamilyTreeDNA. Since both of ...
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Back From Vacation - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Jun 2017
... 2314 Computer Workshop: Using the Double Match Triangulator for Autosomal DNA Analysis Louis Kessler Swan 8 Computer Workshop Until then, I’ll also be a bit distracted. While away on vacation, Sorin Goldenberg on the Jewish Genealogy in Romanian Moldavia Facebook group located over 40 original Romanian ...
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Getting Carried Away - Blog entry by lkessler - 21 May 2017
... “Census Only”, and “Burials” and quickly switch between them. DNA Features I want/need some DNA features that I don’t see readily available in other programs. Behold is going to tell you all the ways each person is related to your starting people, their probability of sharing autosomal
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Raw Data Comparison: FamilyTreeDNA vs MyHeritage DNA - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Mar 2017
Before I leave DNA and get back to Behold for a few weeks, I had one more set of results I wanted to report on. A couple of weeks ago, I compared my MyHeritage DNA ethnicity results to my FamilyTreeDNA results, and also compared my ...
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Done and Onward - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Mar 2017
... the Great Canadian Genealogy Summit in Halifax in October and giving 3 talks on DNA testing and using the results. Onward with Behold Now that DMT’s good for a bit, it’s time to shift back to Behold, whose Version 1.3 has been patiently sitting waiting for me to get back to it and finish it off. I’m excited about getting this version done and ...
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My MyHeritage DNA Results Have Come In - Blog entry by lkessler - 12 Mar 2017
... off, that didn’t take very long! At RootsTech, just over one month ago, I took a DNA test at the MyHeritage booth. I didn’t have to mail it back. Instead the MyHeritage people delivered all the samples they collected at RootsTech directly to the lab in Texas. A couple of weeks before RootsTech, I was selected to receive a free MyHeritage
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Heavy Lifting: Building a New Website - Blog entry by lkessler - 11 Mar 2017
... designer and he gave me a couple of alternative ideas that included an image of a DNA helix as a logo. I don’t know if anyone has the copyright for that particular graphic and don’t really feel I want to use anything but my sun logo to represent my programs, so I thought I’d start off with what I came up with for now. I had to then decide what to include. My ...
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