Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog     The Behold User Forum

... Lower limits of individual segment matches at each company are: Family Tree DNA:  1 cM 23andMe:  5 cM  (on the X chromosome:  2 cM) MyHeritage DNA:  6.1 cM GEDmatch:  default 7 cM, but you can reduce that down as low as 1 cM If you’re using GEDmatch, you could download just Person A’s ...

... attracts thousands to her talks. Diahan Southard gave her talk “Your Slice of the DNA Pie”, and I watched it on my computer at home. It was a presentation of the Virtual Genealogical Association, an organization formed in April 2018 to provide a forum for genealogists to connect online. Webinars such as Diahan’s are just one of their offerings. Membership is just ...

... father’s parents. MRCAs are always from the tester’s point of view.) Since DNA shared with my uncle can come from either of my paternal grandparents, and since DNA from my 1C1R can come from either of my maternal grandparents, their double matches and triangulations do not help in the determination of the grandparent. However, ...

... Match Triangulator, and some of the information it provides, at least for me. My own DNA match data is difficult to analyze. I come from a very endogamous population on all my sides that originates in Romania and Ukraine. The endogamy gives me many more matches than most people, but because my origins are from an area that have scarce records prior to 1850, I can only ...

... I humbly admit that I actually developed it so that I could analyze my own DNA to help me figure out how some of my DNA matches might be related. Of course, as I started working on my articles, first looking at my 23andMe matches, I found some problems in my new 3.0.1 version, and a few places I could make enhancements. If you ...

... social sites, maintaining GenSoftReviews, working on my family tree, deciphering my DNA results, going to conferences, watching online seminars, vacations, reading the paper each morning, watching TV, following tennis, football and hockey, eating breakfast, lunch and supper each day, cleaning the dishes, doing house errands, buying groceries, and still having time to ...

... Map page, People page and Log file all have extensive revisions. DMT outputs a dnapainter csv file that can be uploaded to www.dnapainter.com. Now uses conditional formatting extensively in the Excel files, so most of the formatting should move when the data is copied and pasted or sorted. Now can filter all matches to a ...

... wait to try it. This 23andMe beta “auto-builds”  your family tree from your DNA connections with other customers. They aren’t the first to try something like this. Ancestry DNA has ThruLines, which uses your tree and your DNA match’s tree to try to show you how you connect. MyHeritage ...