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... late about 9:30 a.m. I heard the end of Shelley Talalay Dardashti talk describing DNA matching at MyHeritage: At10:30, I listened to Bennett Greenspan tell us about Family Tree DNA. My notes from his talk included him saying: “There will be some new tools coming out in the next quarter or two, like triangulation.” Also of ...

... Each will have slightly different sets of matches, different sets of people they’ve DNA tested, and interesting problems to overcome that I have not seen before. I look forward to hearing their questions, comments and suggestions and using this information to further develop Double Match Triangulator. I gave all the participants a 4 page handout with some preparatory ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... “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