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FTDNA’s 13th International Genetic Genealogy Conf, Day 1 - Blog entry by lkessler - 10 Nov 2017
Location: Houston Texas. About 200 genetic genealogists have gathered for 3 days of talks and mingling and discussion about the state of DNA analysis. It’s very exciting for me to be with and talk to so many experts, each with a slightly different viewpoint and their own specialties in this field. The day ...
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Revisiting Speed and Balding - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Nov 2017
Thank you Debbie for your analysis, but I'm still not convinced.
You were correct on Facebook to say that the match filter would not affect results above 9 cM. So there must be some other reason why Speed and Balding give a greater than 20% chance that shared segments from 30 Mb to 40 Mb are from > 20 ...
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Revisiting Speed and Balding - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Nov 2017
Doug, (Professor Speed, Dr. Speed?)
Thank you for your thorough response to my post. If I understand your explanation correctly, you are doing everything exactly the way it should be done. The one thing you don't mention is anything about filtering for only people who would show up in a person's DNA match ...
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Revisiting Speed and Balding - Blog comment by lkessler - 8 Nov 2017
Jim,
Thank you very much for your assessment. I too think that most of my segment matches (the ones that are valid) between 5 and 20 cM must be between 6 and 12 generations back since I have yet to identify any of them. But that's what endogamy with just a 5 generation genealogy does.
I'm looking very ...
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15 Years of Genealogy Blogging - Blog entry by lkessler - 7 Nov 2017
Today is my Behold Blog’s 15’th blogiversary. My first blog post was on Thursday, November 7, 2002. This blog post commemorating my blogiversary is my 1084th. I’m not as prolific a writer as Randy Seaver or James Tanner, but an average of 72 posts a year, more than one a week, isn’t that bad. ...
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Revisiting Speed and Balding - Blog entry by lkessler - 5 Nov 2017
Last weekend, I enjoyed two webinars by Tim Janzen that were part of MyHeritage’s One-Day Genealogy Seminar with Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Tim gave an introductory talk and an advanced talk on the use of Autosomal DNA Testing. In both talks, Tim showed the well-known and often referred to Speed and ...
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Family Tree DNA’s November Conference - Blog entry by lkessler - 19 Oct 2017
I managed to get registered today for The 13th Annual International Conference on Genetic Genealogy held each year by Family Tree DNA and I’ll be going to Houston from November 10 to 12 to attend. This is a tough one to get into (unless you are a speaker) as registration is only open to FTDNA group ...
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2016 and Looking Forward - Blog comment by lkessler - 16 Oct 2017
Hi Tony. I saw that something was done. But I don't see where the Extended Legacy Format document can be looked at. It is listed, but there is no link to it on the drafts page: http://tech.fhiso.org/drafts/
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GCGS 2017 Day 3 - Blog entry by lkessler - 15 Oct 2017
#cangensummit2017 – The final day at the Great Canadian Genealogy Summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia was a half-day with 6 talks in 2 tracks. We all met for a breakfast together, and then I led off repeating my talk from the day before on intro DNA. I had a few less people than the day before since many had ...
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Revisiting Speed and Balding - Blog comment by lkessler - 9 Nov 2017