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... in Ukraine”, and Israel Pickholtz will be talking about his successes in his DNA research in his endogamous family, and I’m currently half way through reading his new book: Endogamy: One Family, One People. To top that off, Sunday has a panel discussing “The Future of Genetic Genealogy” with panel members: Elizabeth A. R. Kaegi (moderator), Maurice Gleeson, ...

... There’s some very interesting things I’m working on (including some useful DNA info for you that I don’t think any other program has included yet – and I’ll talk about those in future blog posts. What’s immediately next on my agenda is to get my Behold News newsletter going again. It’s been over 4 years since I sent the last one. I was having ...

... Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) February 26, 2016 Judy Russell presenting DNA Tests. 10th Unlock the Past genealogy cruise #UTPCruise pic.twitter.com/JngO1JQcN0— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) February 26, 2016 "Hatch, Match, Dispatch" (born, married, died) - Judy Russell, the legal genealogist #UTPCruise— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) ...

... February 23, 2016 Later on in the afternoon, Judy Russell gave a superb talk about DNA. Judy Russell getting ready to present the ABCs of DEF ... er, make that DNA. #UTPCruise pic.twitter.com/4gWKEnHWtH— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) February 23, 2016 Day 11 we were in Sydney. My wife and I spent a week in Sydney three years ...

... research help zone session. Dinner was followed by Shauna Hicks' story about her DNA research and the perils it threw upon her: Shauna Hicks presenting "Love, Sex and Damned Lies" on the 10th Unlock The Past genealogy cruise #UTPCruise pic.twitter.com/QycqxSzNQL— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) February 17, 2016 The next day, day 5, we were in Windy ...

I have come across a need to check out the SEX tag in GEDCOM. Some of the new DNA features I’m finishing up for the next version of Behold make important use of the sex of the individual. Determining autosomal, X, Y and mitochondrial DNA shares between two individuals is much less accurate when the sex of anyone in the ...

... advancements, database advancements, online genealogy databases to connect to, the DNA phenomena, new genealogy services, old genealogy services shutting down, and constant changes in the genealogy software scene which I keep up with due to my monitoring of all the software out there for GenSoftReviews. So please be patient. I will get there. I am getting there. Behold ...

... document your family and lead to new discoveries. Okay. So now you’ve got into DNA. You did a test, or a few tests with one or more companies. You expect your genealogy software to load in this data and process it for you in some useful way. The software should use it to help you document your family and lead to new discoveries, right? … (sound of silence) I was ...

... relationship, there is much valuable information that can be reported that can aid in DNA research. To do so, there needs to be a concise notation for showing the relationship of one individual to another.   I am presenting my proposal for this notation here with the hope that people who are more expert at genealogical DNA research ...

This is why I’m switching from using @BlueSnapInc to @FastSpring to process payments for Behold. I started about 10 years ago with what was then Plimus. Plimus was founded in 2001. They were a payment processor that would accept payments for Behold on my behalf. They had a nice interface to produce a buy now ...