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Tracking Just Ancestors at MyHeritage - Blog comment by uwem - 29 Nov 2020
Hi Louis,
Building family trees the way you described above only makes sense if you are absolutely certain that the data provided by MyHeritage (or other sources) is proven and correct. If you don't have proof through documents, your data is pretty much worthless. Which is also the reason why I believe that ...
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Tracking Just Ancestors at MyHeritage - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Nov 2020
A few months ago, I decided it would be interesting to investigate my niece’s genealogy. I entered information about her parents and grandparents into a new tree at MyHeritage and let MyHeritage’s Record Hints and Smart Matches go to work. It wasn’t too long before I had a couple of hundred people ...
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Newly Rediscovered: GEDCOM 4.0 (and a bonus!) - Blog comment by lkessler - 9 Nov 2020
Thanks JBonevich for letting me know that link is gone. I'll remove it from my article. You might still be able to find the document at archive.org.
GEDCOM specs are still technically copywritten documents by the LDS Church. Hopefully one day, they'll make all their early GEDCOM specs available to everyone.
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My DNAweekly Interview by Ditsa Keren - Blog entry by lkessler - 9 Nov 2020
Two weeks ago, I was interviewed on Zoom by Ditsa Keren for an article that was published on DNAweekly today. DNAweekly publishes an interesting blog with a wide range of articles about consumer-based DNA tests that extend into their use by genealogists. They reach out and look for third-party software that ...
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Newly Rediscovered: GEDCOM 4.0 (and a bonus!) - Blog comment by jbonevich - 7 Nov 2020
Unfortunately it appears that the GEDCOM 4.0 link to Gisbert's copy is no longer working. I get a 404 Not Found when clicking on www.genpluswin.de/gedcom/Gedcom_4.pdf. Anyone happen to download a copy they can make available?
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Ancestry’s Timber Algorithm is Better Than You Think - Blog entry by lkessler - 29 Oct 2020
Ancestry has recently made changes to its display of the amount of DNA you match with someone. The amount is shown in cM (centimorgans). Most DNA testers using their DNA for genealogy purposes know what cM are and what they represent. Your DNA match list shows the Shared DNA you have with each of your ...
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Using WATO for Unknown Ancestral Relationships - Blog comment by thednageek - 27 Oct 2020
You can compare all three scenarios in WATO by putting in three different hypotheses. That's what it was designed to do!
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Using WATO for Unknown Ancestral Relationships - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Oct 2020
Big update Oct 27: Much easier way to do this than in my post below. Leah Larkin informed me that I can do all 3 scenarios at once like this: So all three hypothesis indeed can be included at once. And the results with WATO Version 2 come out as: Showing Hypothesis 1 (Brother) is 37 times ...
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Does WATO work well with Endogamous populations? - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Oct 2020
I’ve been quiet lately because I’ve been enjoying doing some research with my wife’s cousin Terry Lasky on one branch of their common families. Terry has got several dozen of his relatives on that side of the family to do DNA tests. One aspect of what we are doing led to Jennifer Mendelsohn suggesting ...
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Tracking Just Ancestors at MyHeritage - Blog comment by lkessler - 30 Nov 2020