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In March 2017, I compared my DNA raw data from Family Tree DNA against my DNA raw data from MyHeritage DNA.  I had tested with FTDNA at home on Nov 25, 2016 and with MyHeritage DNA at RootsTech on Feb 10, 2017. Since then, I ordered tests and tested at home with 23andMe on Dec 2, 2017, AncestryDNA on Dec ...

Gould Genealogy & History @GouldGenealogy is an Australian company started in 1976 by Alan Phillips. They have a physical store in Adelaide, but sell over 5,000 products for genealogists online at their website including books, ebooks, software and stationary. and include many publications they have ...

A couple of years ago, I introduced the horrible acronym BGRN to represent a new notation for DNA relationships which I extended to also include non-genetic relationships. Using this notation, one can define precisely how one person is related to a second person. Using just the notation, I can programmatically ...

Today, I received an email from Living DNA that my test results are now available. After watching several of the RootsTech livestreamed presentations by David Nicholson and Hannah Morden of Living DNA in February, their promise of their upcoming Family Networks capability to reconstruct family trees intrigued ...

Today, MyHeritage announced a new feature – a brand new filtering system for DNA matches. They describe it here on the MyHeritage Blog. They say they are rolling out the feature gradually, so you may not see it yet. I can see the new features and I thought I’d give it a run-through. They now show me ...

Genome Mate Pro (GMP) is a program written by Rebecca Walker and is designed to organize all your DNA matches and match information. This is not a simple program to use, but it supposedly does a lot for you. I have DNA tested now at FamilyTreeDNA (autosomal, BigY-500, mt-full), 23andMe, MyHeritage DNA and ...

For over 30 years, genealogy software has relied on the GEDCOM standard to transfer data between programs. There have been advances in the past years to allow programs to directly sync to online family trees, but that is nowhere near perfected and very few programs have the capability. So the fallback is still ...

I’m not sure exactly how it happened, but a genealogy program named FindMyFamilyHeritageAncestryPastSearch.com appeared on GenSoftReviews this morning: I’ve never heard of this program before. Have you? The program even had two reviews, one good one, and one not so good one. Overall, the two ratings ...

This was the topic of a recent Dick Eastman article. The article is from Dick’s plus edition, so you need to subscribe to see it in full and the comments. I did comment and here is my feeling on the subject: The future is definitely the one-trees that FamilySearch, Geni, WikiTree and others have created, ...

This morning, I received my DNA test results from AncestryDNA. It completes my quadfecta and now gives me results with the big four: Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, MyHeritage DNA and now Ancestry DNA. Living DNA has been working recently to turn the big four into a big five, but to date I haven’t tested there ...