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Some Rogue Program on GenSoftReviews - Blog entry by lkessler - 1 Apr 2018
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 ...
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Where is Genealogy Software Headed? - Blog entry by lkessler - 25 Mar 2018
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, ...
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A Tale of Four DNA Tests - Blog comment by lkessler - 22 Mar 2018
Yes, I had forgot that I had done that with my 23andMe data. I've now updated the article to include my GEDmatch Genesis matches.
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A Tale of Four DNA Tests - Blog entry by lkessler - 21 Mar 2018
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 ...
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Join Me for #genchatDNA Tomorrow - Blog entry by lkessler - 16 Mar 2018
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 ...
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DMT Now Reads @MyHeritage DNA Segment Match Files - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Mar 2018
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 ...
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Day 4 – #RootsTech –The Final Day (Sob!) - Blog entry by lkessler - 3 Mar 2018
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 ...
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Day 3 – #RootsTech – #NotAtRootsTech – #Genchat - Blog entry by lkessler - 2 Mar 2018
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. ...
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Triangulation does NOT mean IBD - Blog comment by lkessler - 1 Mar 2018
tewilson: Well, DNA and genealogy together can lead you to reasonable conclusions as long as it all makes sense. So just make sure you've got all your i's dotted and your t's crossed.
Some Rogue Program on GenSoftReviews - Blog comment by lkessler - 2 Apr 2018