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I’m looking forward to the Family History Fanatics eConference coming up in a week’s time. I’ll be one of the speakers on what will be a great day of DNA talks. I have given many talks at conferences, but this will be my first virtual talk from the comfort of my office at home. I just submitted my ...

I purchased a Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) test from @DanteLabs for $399 USD in August 2018. My Variant Call Format (VCF) files were ready for me to download in January 2019, which I dissected in a blog post in February:  My Whole Genome Sequencing. The VCF File. My 1 TB hard disk containing my raw data ...

I’ve released an update to Behold that includes a 64-bit executable that will run on 64-bit Windows computers. If Behold 1.2.3 is running fine for you, there’s no reason to upgrade. There are no other changes in it. The new installation program now contains both a 32-bit and 64-bit executable. The ...

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 ...