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It is very true. The English language is full of inconsistencies. And one of these inconsistences is the pronunciation of the letter “G”. There is the hard “G”, as in: great, gallop, flying, guppy and goat. And there is the soft “G”, as in gentle, giraffe, gem or gymnasium. Hard “G”s ...

Is it true genealogists have more fun? Unfortunately I had to miss #genchat on Twitter last night. The questions and answers this week were about DNA testing, starting with MRCAs and then branching out. For those of you who do not know what #genchat is, it is a genealogy based Twitter chat that happens every ...

Some of the least reliable information provided by DNA tests are the ethnicity percentages, also called admixtures. After getting my and my uncle’s DNA test results, I posted my ethnicity results. Our Ashkenazi Jewish percentages came in at 79% and 89% at FamilyTreeDNA and my result came in at 83.8% at ...

I just happened to come across a post by Patricia Greber which showed the back of her T-shirt that she made to wears at genealogy conferences. Her shirt shows her family names and GEDmatch kit number and asks: “Are we related?” Patricia obviously wants other genealogists to see this, so I checked with her ...

I had a wonderful two week vacation with my family at Disney World in Florida. I don’t know if I’d call it relaxing, because it was non-stop go-go-go. Here’s one of the many amusing items from the Haunted Mansion for my genealogy friends: So it’s back to try again to finish version 1.3 of Behold and ...

I’ve noticed it’s been almost 2 months since my last blog post, and that’s too long. I kept delaying my posts with the hope and expectation that my next one would be announcing the release of Behold 1.3.  However, the changes to Behold have been taking longer than I hoped. With Spring bringing ...

Before I leave DNA and get back to Behold for a few weeks, I had one more set of results I wanted to report on. A couple of weeks ago, I compared my MyHeritage DNA ethnicity results to my FamilyTreeDNA results, and also compared my match results. There was one other comparison I had wanted to do. It’s to ...

What a few months! Finished up RootsTech and left with 3rd place in the Innovator Showdown. Took a much needed one-week vacation with my wife. Finally got out of my boot and started driving again. And I finished DMT’s new website at www.doublematchtriangulator.com and last week released version 1.5 of DMT. ...

First off, that didn’t take very long! At RootsTech, just over one month ago, I took a DNA test at the MyHeritage booth. I didn’t have to mail it back. Instead the MyHeritage people delivered all the samples they collected at RootsTech directly to the lab in Texas. A couple of weeks before RootsTech, I was ...

I knew it wouldn’t be easy. But I scheduled yesterday, March 10, to be the launch date for a website for my Double Match Triangulator program. The new website is here:  doublematchtriangulator.com There’s a lot involved in preparing a new website, even if you’ve done a few before. To be honest, I ...