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Converting Base Pairs to Centimorgans - Blog entry by lkessler - 12 Jun 2022
DNA Testing companies provide you with your matches and quantify how closely you match each person by giving you a total value in centimorgans (cM). In addition, companies other than Ancestry DNA also provide you with all your individual segment matches ...
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Can Visual Phasing be Programmed? - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 May 2022
Visual Phasing is a technique to assign DNA segments of 3 siblings to their four grandparents. I don’t happen to have 3 siblings who all tested their DNA, so up to now, I’ve never had a personal use for the technique. A few months ago for a DNA study we ...
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Double Match Triangulator, Version 5.0 - Blog entry by lkessler - 18 May 2022
... autosomal segment matches and help you determine how you might be related to your DNA matches. Six Months of Analysis Over the winter and spring, I was working hard on on a project with Terry, my wife’s 3rd cousin, to see if we could confirm via DNA that their great-great-grandparents and 4 others were in fact siblings. Terry ...
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My Closest Unknown DNA Matches - Blog entry by lkessler - 9 Jan 2022
Judy Russell just released a very interesting post: The 2022 DNA goals on her blog The Legal Genealogist. In it, Judy resolves to try to identify her “top who-is-this-person-match” at each testing company. Judy was the person who prompted, well um, pushed me into getting into DNA testing. It was during the ...
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5 Years Ago Today, I Retired - Blog entry by lkessler - 24 Nov 2021
... back and see what I have accomplished so far in my first 5 years of retirement. DNA Testing and Analysis These past 5 years I’d call my DNA testing years. I did my first DNA test with Family Tree DNA in Nov 2016 and subsequently tested myself at MyHeritage, ...
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Your DNA Raw Data May Have Changed - Blog entry by lkessler - 20 Nov 2021
To my surprise, I downloaded my raw data from my 23andMe DNA test and it was different from my earlier downloads. I would have thought your raw data from a company wouldn’t change. I took one DNA test there, so my results should be determined once, and that’s what should be represented in my raw data. I ...
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by lkessler - 10 Nov 2021
tsturg: Yes. See my blog post from 10 Apr 2020: Determining the Accuracy of DNA Tests: https://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=3305 - I've now added this into my "followups" at the end of the article.
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Comparing Raw Data from 5 DNA Testing Companies - Blog comment by tsturg - 1 Nov 2021
... I came across this article as I searched for information on how it compares to other DNA kits.
Do you have an update on getting your full genome back and being able to compare your combined SNP’s?
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DMT 4.3 - New FTDNA File Format and Matching Algorithm - Blog entry by lkessler - 26 Aug 2021
... Match Triangulator which includes changes to allow it to read the new Family Tree DNA segment file format. On July 1, Family Tree DNA announced changes to their matching algorithm along with other updates on their blog: Updates To Family Finder, Featuring Improved Matching And A Soon To Be Released Chromosome Painter. On July 7, they ...
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Your DNA Raw Data May Have Changed - Blog comment by jwlong - 30 Nov 2021