Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

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 ...

Both #genchat and #genchatDNA are Twitter chat sessions which meet periodically and gather together genealogists to provide their set of insights about the current topic. Tomorrow, I am the #genchatDNA featured “Answerer”. If you are a genealogist who is also on Twitter, join me tomorrow, Saturday ...

I’ve just released version 2.1 of DMT which includes support for MyHeritage DNA’s new segment download files. MyHeritage DNA made some big announcements last week at #RootsTech, and included among those was the ability to download your match list and your segment match list. Double Match Triangulator ...

Saturday is the most difficult day to have a #NotAtRootsTech day for me, because all of the family is home and I have to excuse myself upstairs to the office and mostly ignore them. But let’s continue. First I tried to catch up on the #RootsTech twitter feeds and blogs which I found impossible to ...

Friday. Caught up on my Twitter feed from last night. One tweet from Nicole Dyer led me to her blog post about Diana’s classes on Source Citations and Getting Organized. They made the presentation slides available so I took a look and also downloaded their great handouts from the RootsTech App. ...