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Interesting. You got over 100,000 more usable SNPs from your combined file than I did. That's a lot. I wonder why. And thanks for your link to Krahn's program. I'm a Windows guy, but his template will be of interest to me. I'll likely be custom programming my own extract once I get my BAM file. Yes, Dante ...

Interesting, Jim. Of course, when someone has mapped as much of their chromosomes as you have, you're a step up on most of us and can leverage that data with other tools. So it is good to know that you found clustering useful on top of everything else you've done.

Thank you Jonathan for your comment, and for creating your Shared Clustering tool. See my next blog post Comparing Genetic Clusters that compares the specific results. I use the 8 people who I know "on paper" how I'm related to, to evaluate the assignment similarities and differences between yours and the ...

I do recall, Leah, last summer I tried RootsFinder's their very innovative 3D visualization of triangulations. They even the ability to associate the triangulation "blobs" (if I may call them that) with an ancestor and color them. But that functionality is not possible for AncestryDNA where you do not have ...

Joe, that's because I've never got into Visual Phasing as I have no sets of siblings that have tested with whom I'd be able to use the technique. But yes, for those who have 3 siblings or more, Visual Phasing is a great tool.

JStern: Thanks. I recall them having the more detailed breakdown when I originally wrote this blog post. But I'll update it now to reflect the added details.

Wow! That's great news Phillip. Since I retired, programming for genealogy and DNA analysis has more than filled my need for having new challenges and aspirations. I hope you also enjoy the process and get FHS to be the program you always wanted it to be. p.s. I tweeted your news, and included an image of ...

Winz: Yes, AA means father is A and mother is A at that position. I can’t answer your 2nd question yet, because I don’t currently know much about what the whole genome results will provide. I have taken Big Y-500, so hopefully I’ll learn enough to be able to see if I can compare the results in some way.

Vanlaargen. Thanks for the advance warning. Yes, sometimes these company’s time estimates are only as good as a programmer’s time estimates are. :-)

Wayne: FHISO is the current group trying to develop such standards. www.fhiso.org - And Tony Proctor, who is acting chair of FHISO has developed his STEMMA model which is designed as an XML markup language for genealogy. http://stemma.parallaxview.co/