Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

... 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 ...

... ago, I was interviewed on Zoom by Ditsa Keren for an article that was published on DNAweekly today. DNAweekly publishes an interesting blog with a wide range of articles about consumer-based DNA tests that extend into their use by genealogists. They reach out and look for third-party software that ...

Ancestry has recently made changes to its display of the amount of DNA you match with someone. The amount is shown in cM (centimorgans). Most DNA testers using their DNA for genealogy purposes know what cM are and what they represent. Your DNA match ...

... In yesterday’s post, I wanted to see if the What Are The Odds (WATO) tool at the DNA Painter site would work for endogamy, and I came out satisfied that it does, for either Ancestry DNA numbers or Family Tree DNA numbers, with the < 7 cM matches removed from the latter. WATO is designed to help ...

... Terry has got several dozen of his relatives on that side of the family to do DNA tests. One aspect of what we are doing led to Jennifer Mendelsohn suggesting to me that we try WATO – the What Are the Odds tool built by Leah LaPerle Larkin and Jonny Perl. I was concerned that the endogamy in our matches might add too much to the shared cM of two people. And I ...