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I did want to note that Andrew Hoyle has a document with My Family Tree™ GEDCOM Extensions

Barry: You said: "for the handful of weak matches for whom we have traced a MRCA, the generational difference has usually been larger than had been predicted by the model". I would expect that is because the one MRCA you identified is one of many MRCA's that you and your match have. Neither of you has ...

... or the perpetrator?

Yes, I had forgot that I had done that with my 23andMe data. I've now updated the article to include my GEDmatch Genesis matches.

tewilson: Well, DNA and genealogy together can lead you to reasonable conclusions as long as it all makes sense. So just make sure you've got all your i's dotted and your t's crossed.

Tim: Wow! That blogging program looks amazing! It's not a genealogy program, though. You do such great work and I can't even figure out how you do half of it. How can we convince you to come back into the genealogy programming fold again?

tewilso: What I can’t tell from your example is who is matching who. Unfortunately, and especially for smaller segments under 7 cM, chance matches can happen because the companies are comparing both parental chromosomes of one person with both parental chromosomes of another chromosome. And that is at ...

Joe: Send me an email.

Joe: We're just beginning see the development of good tools to analyze all this DNA stuff. GEDmach is doing a great job providing new ideas like this, and it's great when there's one that can help us make sense out this nonsense.

I guess I can say a week or two. Add another week to update the documentation and the website. Now remember I'm a programmer, so multiply that by 5 and add 3.