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My Living DNA Results Are In - Blog comment by jstern18 - 22 Nov 2018
Hi Louis, you should be able to see more details about your Living DNA ethnicity breakdown. If you go to your Family Ancestry results, there should be a button for "Explore in full." After that, it should show you your results as "Complete," "Standard," and "Cautious" with + and - buttons for seeing more ...
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by vvh - 17 Nov 2018
Louis, thank you very much for the excellent article! It is very valuable.
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GEDCOM 1 Lives! - Blog comment by lkessler - 17 Sep 2018
Wow! That's great news Phillip. Since I retired, programming for genealogy and DNA analysis has more than filled my need for having new challenges and aspirations. I hope you also enjoy the process and get FHS to be the program you always wanted it to be.
p.s. I tweeted your news, and included an image of ...
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GEDCOM 1 Lives! - Blog comment by pebrown25 - 17 Sep 2018
Just some notes about GEDCOM 1.1 in the Family History System. That format can still be produced with the latest (Windows specific) version of FHS...as well as PAF2.0, PAF 2.1, LDS 5.5 and a Custom version that adds custom tags to LDS 5.5 that allow exporting FHS data fields that were not formally supported in ...
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by vanlaargen - 8 Sep 2018
Hi Louis,
I just used DNA Kit Studio to merge my mothers’ Ancestry, 23andMEv3, MyHeritage and LivingDNA kits. The resulting file was 39.5MB. A strange quirk, there seems to be a chromosome 25, but after checking some of them on DBSNP they all seemed to be on the X or and on the PAR region of the Y.
I ...
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Sep 2018
Winz: Yes, AA means father is A and mother is A at that position.
I can’t answer your 2nd question yet, because I don’t currently know much about what the whole genome results will provide. I have taken Big Y-500, so hopefully I’ll learn enough to be able to see if I can compare the results in some way.
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Sep 2018
Vanlaargen. Thanks for the advance warning. Yes, sometimes these company’s time estimates are only as good as a programmer’s time estimates are. :-)
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Advancing the GEDCOM Standard - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Sep 2018
Wayne: FHISO is the current group trying to develop such standards. www.fhiso.org - And Tony Proctor, who is acting chair of FHISO has developed his STEMMA model which is designed as an XML markup language for genealogy. http://stemma.parallaxview.co/
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by winz - 1 Sep 2018
Another question?
People who have taken big Y have discouraged me from getting a whole genome test, largely because the results can’t be directly compared to the database of Big Y results that my haplogroup forum has collected. Any thoughts? Can I extract a Big Y like data set from a whole genome test
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My Living DNA Matches - Blog comment by julieg - 23 Nov 2018