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To my surprise, I downloaded my raw data from my 23andMe DNA test and it was different from my earlier downloads. I would have thought your raw data from a company wouldn’t change. I took one DNA test there, so my results should be determined once, and that’s what should be represented in my raw data. I ...

An issue about GEDCOM has once again come to my attention. In the GEDCOM 5.5.1 standard they write: Conflicting event dates and places should be represented by placing them in separate event structures with appropriate source citations rather than by placing them under the same enclosing event. I ...

Prompted by this week’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Genealogy post by Randy Seaver, I thought I’d like to document this in a blog post. 1971: As I entered high school (grade 10), my super-smart neighbor and friend who was two grades ahead of me recommended I follow his lead and get into programming at ...

Today, I completed week 6 of my 10 week SLIG course. Every Wednesday afternoon between Sept 15 and Nov 17, I’m being presented with two 75 minute lessons on Researching Russian Genealogy Records. There’s a 30 minute break between the lessons. There’s 15 minutes after the 2nd lesson where we’re given ...

I have released Version 4.3 of Double Match Triangulator which includes changes to allow it to read the new Family Tree DNA segment file format. On July 1, Family Tree DNA announced changes to their matching algorithm along with other updates on their blog: Updates To Family Finder, Featuring Improved Matching ...

@WikiTreers is a free One-World family tree set up like a wiki. It has been in operation since 2008. It currently has over 27 million profiles. The community of people who use WikiTree set up various online social events and challenges amongst themselves to encourage improvement of the quality of their tree. ...

This Wednesday, July 14 at 3 p.m EDT, I’ll be introduced as the @WikiTreers guest for the week. I’ll be on the panel of the Livecast which will be about an hour long. The first half hour will be the “reveal” of John Boeren, whose week they’ll have just finished up. The next half hour will introduce ...

I wrote several months ago about the WikiTree Challenge: No Genealogist Should Miss the WikiTree Challenge Each week, WikiTree is holding a challenge for all the people who use WikiTree as part of their “Year of Accuracy”. They invite a genealogy special guest – usually someone well-known amongst ...

When I first started doing my genealogy in 1974, I didn’t have a genealogy program to use. I started just like everyone else, simply recording information, and how everyone was connected in hand-drawn family trees. I had access to a Script document processor utility on the mainframe at my University that I ...

It’s been just over a week since FamilySearch released the official version of GEDCOM 7.0. See my article about the announcement. Now we probably will go into a period of silence, where nobody hears anything more about GEDCOM 7.0 for a while. The expectation is that all the developers are hard at work ...