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MyHeritage has just enhanced its Family Statistics feature. See their blog post from yesterday on this. Being a numbers guy, I really like this sort of information. It it interesting, provides great insights and can point to errors that need correction. I believe MyHeritage has one of the best sets of analytics ...

I was shocked to notice that I hadn’t blogged in over 3 months. I think it’s time to catch up with what’s been going on. The Last 3 Months To be honest, I’ve had another non-genealogy project distracting me and taking some of my genealogy/programming time away. Also, we had a beautiful summer ...

I’ve opened my MyHeritage account in 2014 and I’ve been a subscriber to their Complete Plan since February 2018. It was then that I started using MyHeritage as my primary site for storing my family tree information. I took a MyHeritage DNA test in 2007 and uploaded my uncle’s test from FTDNA in 2018. I ...

My last post defined base pairs and centimorgans, explained their relationship with each other, checked the accuracy of one genetic map, and described 3 converters that will calculate cM from base pairs. Before leaving this topic, I wanted to document what I tried in an attempt to create an accurate bp to cM ...

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 and tell you the centimorgans of every segment. For each ...

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 are doing, my wife’s 3rd cousin Terry was kind ...

I’ve released version 5.0 of  Double Match Triangulator (DMT), a tool to help you analyze your 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 ...