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I’ve been watching with much interest on the RootsTech Devpost site, some of the great programs that are being submitted to the showdown. Prior to the submitted programs being announced, I was able to find many of them because of the videos they produced on either YouTube or Vimeo, or through their entries as ...

For the 2017 #RootsTech Innovator Showdown, a requirement is that the submitted program must be accompanied by a 60 to 90 second video uploaded to YouTube or Vimeo. As of eight days ago, I had my Double Match Triangulator program all ready, I had the required project page all filled out at Devpost.com with ...

Today, Nov 24, 2016, I celebrated my 60th birthday. It was so nice to also celebrate it yesterday with my Australian genealogy friends who were wishing me the best when here in Winnipeg it was still the day before. But that was not all it was. This was also my last day of work as I head into ...

I’ve gone through the 1.1.99 version of DMT I created about a month ago, have made some improvements and have now produced the 1.2 release. You can find and download the new version on the DMT page. If you don’t have more than one Chromosome Browser Results (CBR) file from FamilyTreeDNA of your own to ...

Over at the ISOGG Facebook group, Rich Capen asked if it would be possible for Double Match Triangulator to compare GEDmatch kits. Well, that spurred my interest to see if I could. My uncle’s Chromosome Browser Results (CBR) file at FamilyTreeDNA is very big because he is Ashkenazi. I just downloaded a new ...

I’ve released a beta of what will be version 1.2 of DMT. It has all the new functionality. I just haven’t updated the help file yet. Once the help file is updated, I’ll re-release it as 1.2. With the deadline for the RootsTech Innovator Showdown coming up, I wanted to get some major enhancements in. ...

Lots has happened in the past few weeks. I’ve booked my flights, hotel and registered for RootsTech 2017 in Salt Lake City from Feb 8 to 11. I was there in 2012 and 2014 so its been a while and I’m looking forward to renewing some acquaintances and meeting other genealogy software developers, geneabloggers ...

First to reassure you, I am back working towards finishing Behold Version 1.3. But I do have to put up this post before I forget about it. Two days ago, I  announced my free Double Match Triangulator program on the International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG)’s Facebook page. It is a closed group, ...

I’ve now released my new freeware program to provide a new view to help people analyze their autosomal DNA matches from FamilyTreeDNA. It is called Double Match Triangulator. I actually released version 1.0 a couple of days ago, but fixed a bug and version 1.0.1 is available at www.beholdgenealogy.com/dmt. ...

Most people might think releasing a freeware program is easy. Just write it and make it available. Right? Well, there’s a bit more in it than that. When I came up with the idea for Double Match Triangulation of autosomal DNA using the chromosome match files produced by FamilyTreeDNA, I knew I’d need a ...