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mjashby: You make some good points. I think the GEDCOM export inaccuracies of Ancestry are their mistake, and if a connection is made with an online database, the connecting program in no way their mistake but attempt to do it correctly. If the online database stores things inappropriately, then conversion ...

ljonas1: It's too bad, but it looks like when they made the change, they also added security, so you can no longer download the file directly from a link any more. So the only way to get your raw VCF file now might be to contact Dante and ask them for it.

Justin. Yes it's dangerous if not done carefully. For shared trees like Family search, it would need to mimic the manual method a person would have to do it, and ask the exact questions that the online tree would ask. It should not allow new people to be added or people to be deleted without properly verifying ...

Keith: It wouldn't make sense for MacKiev to get rid of Sync. The only reason would be if Ancestry no longer let them do it. I hope Ancestry opens up their API to other developers in the future. It's a shame that only FTM and RootsMagic are given access to it.

spmcdonald: GEDmatch does not have a tool for that. If you have 3 or more uncles or aunts who are all siblings, then you should use Visual Phasing to identify all their grandparents: https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2016/11/21/visual-phasing-an-example-part-1-of-5/ If you have the raw data of any close ...

Bizlovr: These files are not easy to work with. I'm trying to directly analyze them myself (I have some skills with this sort of analysis) since I don't like the black box analysis tools that the genomic genealogists use. Getting down and dirty and playing with the ants is easier for me than just getting ...

Ian: If you’ve already done Ancestry, then I’d recommend 23andMe as the other one which will give you the greatest number of different SNPs to use. Only 13% of Ancestry and 23andMe’s SNPs were in common and you should end up with about 1.1 million SNPs by combining just those two tests. Also you’ll get ...

Kendraz: When I purchased my kit back in August 2018, the hard drive with the BAM and FASTQ files was included free of charge. I did note in November that they started charging $69 extra for the hard drive containing your raw data. I am purely looking at the short versus long reads for the purpose of ...

Ah, yes. Evert-Jan: Take a look at Shelley's article.

Sullrich: Yes, that’s an excellent example of how the shared SNPs are very dependent on the chip that is used. Thanks for the offer of SNPs. I’d love to see a sample of Living DNA’s raw data from their new chip.