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Update: January 16, 2017. Contest Winner Chosen. My daughter did the random stuff and pulled the name out of the hat (actually it was a plastic bag) The lucky winner was:  Carole Steers Congratulations, Carole If you don’t have your pass already to RootsTech, Feb 8-11, 2017 in Salt Lake City, then ...

Yesterday was 20 years from the day I put up my first official web pages in 1997. (Rats. I missed it. I should have had my web-iversary in my appointment calendar.) I started webhosting using the services of Concentric.net who in 2000 were acquired by XO. My original web address was: ...

When I was reviewing the #RootsTech 2017 Schedule several months ago to see what sessions I would be interested in attending, I was particularly attracted to the talk by Janine Adams and Brooks Duncan on “Go Paperless: Digitize & Streamline Your Research”, on Friday at 11:00 a.m., described as: ...

On Monday Dec 19, it felt like I might have sprained my ankle. It was my first squash game of the day and I planted my foot and I felt a tiny pop in my ankle. It wasn’t too bad and I tried to continue but less than a minute later I felt another pop in the ankle. Now it felt like a badly sprained ankle. I ...

Okay. Let’s do what we did last post for autosomal this time for the X chromosome. I’ll assume you already know the unique pattern of how the X chromosome get’s passed down, where males get their one X from their mother and females get one of their Xs from their mother and the other from their father. ...

Back to Behold, but still DNA. I am adding some DNA features to Behold that I know I need and are not in any genealogy programs currently out there. Basically, I want to know the expected (i.e. mean) amount of autosomal, X, Y and mt DNA that each person will share with main person (or people) selected for ...

I happened to come across a post by Robert Davis on the Ulster Co NY Y-DNA group at FamilyTree DNA. Robert said: Double Match Triangulator …would be of use in finding links (common matches) between two individuals that are not themselves matches. and hence the ICW tool of FF is of no use. That was an ...

With the #RootsTech #InnovatorShowdown coming, and with DMT entered, I wanted to get one last update to DMT in while I could. You can get the new Version 1.3 here. My realization of DM Theorem 1 (and Corollary 1) made me want to change the DMT overlap detection algorithm somewhat. Now each Triangulation Group ...

I haven’t seen a list of 2017 Roots Tech Ambassadors anywhere. So here’s the people I’ve found: Alison Taylor, USA – Pictures and Stories  Allison Kimball, USA – Simple Inspiration Amy Archibald, USA – Revealing Roots and Branches (Ambassador Coordinator) Amy Johnson Crow, USA ...

When I think of something in the middle of the night, I just have to write it down as soon as I get up. My mind’s background processor has been absorbed in figuring out how to get the output from Double Match Triangulator to display the two halves of each Chromosome pair. It’s tricky. Currently, DMT is ...