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Kelowna District Genealogy Conference Day 1 - Blog entry by lkessler - 28 Sep 2018
It was a good day at #kdgs2018 here in Kelowna, B.C. The venue during the day was the beautiful Kelowna district library downtown. The second floor of the library contains two full rows of shelves that are the reference materials belonging to the Kelowna District Genealogical Society. I’m sure there are ...
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WeGene - Blog entry by lkessler - 21 Sep 2018
WeGene is a Chinese company that up to now has done DNA testing in Shenzhen, China. They have grown to about 300,000 customers. They are going to open a second lab in Hong Kong so they can start offering services abroad. An article a couple of days ago on genomeweb gives more of the details. Their main site ...
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The Benefits of Combining Your DNA Raw Data - Blog entry by lkessler - 17 Sep 2018
In my last post, I compared the raw data from 5 DNA testing companies. I ended that article by describing how I then took my 5 sets of raw data and combined them into a more complete set. I ended up with a file that contained 1,389,750 different SNPs of which just 20,688 (1.5%) were no-calls. I then described ...
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Sep 2018
Winz: Yes, AA means father is A and mother is A at that position.
I can’t answer your 2nd question yet, because I don’t currently know much about what the whole genome results will provide. I have taken Big Y-500, so hopefully I’ll learn enough to be able to see if I can compare the results in some way.
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Sep 2018
Vanlaargen. Thanks for the advance warning. Yes, sometimes these company’s time estimates are only as good as a programmer’s time estimates are. :-)
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Advancing the GEDCOM Standard - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Sep 2018
Wayne: FHISO is the current group trying to develop such standards. www.fhiso.org - And Tony Proctor, who is acting chair of FHISO has developed his STEMMA model which is designed as an XML markup language for genealogy. http://stemma.parallaxview.co/
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog entry by lkessler - 31 Aug 2018
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 ...
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Unlock the Past Seattle Conference Livestream and More - Blog entry by lkessler - 14 Aug 2018
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 ...
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Behold’s Genetic Relationship Notation (BGRN) – Revised - Blog entry by lkessler - 12 Aug 2018
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 ...
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GEDCOM 1 Lives! - Blog comment by lkessler - 17 Sep 2018