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Triangulation does NOT mean IBD - Blog comment by lkessler - 18 Feb 2018

... are a lot of “coulds” and “mights” in there. The bottom line is that the DNA matching evidence must work together with your genealogical research, and if they both support each other, then it gives you further evidence to help support your hypothesis that you all share an IBD segment from a specific common ancestor. Sorry there’s no simple yes or no answer ...
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Programming is like Songwriting - Blog entry by lkessler - 11 Feb 2018

... around New Zealand and Australia. It was there that Judy Russell coerced me into DNA analysis, so I took the leap and found that DNA now occupied and took over every spare moment left in my life. I needed something to analyze this mass of data, so I developed Double Match Triangulator for my own needs. When RootsTech later that year ...
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Double Match Triangulator 2.0 - Blog entry by lkessler - 6 Feb 2018

... if you had match data downloaded from 23andMe, you had to convert it to Family Tree DNA’s Chromosome Browser Results format to use. Now DMT can directly read 23andMe’s Relatives Download file containing its segment match data. The same was true for GEDmatch data. You used to haveto convert it to FTDNA format. Now DMT can directly ...
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The GEDmatch Relationship Tree tool - Blog comment by lkessler - 25 Jan 2018

Joe: We're just beginning see the development of good tools to analyze all this DNA stuff. GEDmach is doing a great job providing new ideas like this, and it's great when there's one that can help us make sense out this nonsense.
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The GEDmatch Relationship Tree tool - Blog comment by jbissett - 25 Jan 2018

... that so far I had not understood or used. My maternal half-brother only shows 2 X-dna matches for unknown cousins. I ran the first one (only 8.2 cms atDna and 7.5 cms X-Dna) and I am pleasantly surprised to find that it leads back to my mother's father's mother's father, which although I have a huge ...
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The GEDmatch Relationship Tree tool - Blog entry by lkessler - 24 Jan 2018

... results) to 2, I get this: What it tells me, is that using rules of how autosomal DNA and X-DNA is passed from parent of a given sex and child of a given sex, my shared amounts with this person most closely match the estimates for two relationships (as shown in the chart above). This person is most likely my 3rd cousin in one of these ...
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Revisiting Missing A-B Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 18 Jan 2018

... analysis for you as well. What Double Match Triangulator does differently than other DNA matching tools, is that it uses not just the segment matches that one person has, but uses the segment matches of two people together. Let’s call yourself Person A, and the one you’re matching with Person B. Double Match Triangulator compares the the segment matches Person A has ...
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A Year of “Retirement” - Blog entry by lkessler - 24 Nov 2017

... at the Great Canadian Genealogical Summit in Halifax and I just returned from FTDNA’s Genetic Genealogy Conference in Houston. Add into that two vacations, one a Western Caribbean cruise with my wife following RootsTech in February, and the second was a two-week family trip to Disney World Florida in June with my wife and older daughter while my younger daughter ...
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Another Estimate of Speed and Balding Figure 2B - Blog entry by lkessler - 15 Nov 2017

... taking this from the perspective of the matches in your match list at Family Tree DNA. Debbie Kennett rightly pointed out that the inclusion of only DNA matches would only affect very small segments under 9 cM, since at least one segment of 9 cM or more (or 7.69 cM plus a minimum 20 cM total) is required before the person is considered ...
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FTDNA’s 13th IGG Conference Lab Tour - Blog comment by heyjude0701 - 14 Nov 2017

Thanks so much for your comments on the FTDNA conference! I wasn't able to attend this year, and so I really appreciate your summaries about the events each day. wish I could have been there to network.