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... 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 ...

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 ...

... 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, ...

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 ...

... 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 ...

... images, charts, help, markup, connections, relationship finder, merging tools, DNA. The list goes on and on. But it’s the social aspect of WikiTree that is the most interesting. They have group projects, their Forum called G2G, and recurring events to give users fun ways to improve the information in WikiTree such as their Source-a-thon, Friday Date Night, the ...

... week is: I thought I’d do that, following Randy’s template: A) On AncestryDNA, I have 149,270 matches. My Top 10 matches are: * First cousin, mother’s side, 1,047 cM, in tree * First cousin, mother’s side, 914 cM, in tree * First cousin 1x removed, mother’s side, 411 cM, in tree * Second cousin 1x removed, father’s side, 355 cM, in tree * ...

... (The Genetic Detective): Reveal       - Jonny Perl (DNA Painter): Kickoff Week 4: January 27       - Jonny Perl (DNA Painter): Reveal       - Jen Baldwin (Ancestral Journeys): Kickoff  Week 6: February 3 ...

... And you could build your personal Playlist of all the sessions you wanted to see. DNA Sessions DNA topics are a big interest of mine. I have been to a lot of webinars about DNA over the past year, so I was looking for something a bit different or new to me this time around. Alison Wilde presented a ...

... Clustering Double Match Triangulator works differently than all the other autosomal DNA tools. By comparing all the segment matches of two or more people, DMT determines every single triangulation between the people whose files you have. The addition of user-entered Most Recent Common Ancestors (MRCAs) in DMT version 3 allowed DMT to take the next step and allow ...