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Windows 10 comes with its own webserver called IIS (Internet Information Services). By default, IIS is not enabled because most people don’t need a webserver on their Windows computer. But if you want a copy of your website on your computer and want to be able to view your local copy and use it to test ...

Happy 2021 everyone! This is the 12th year of the awarding of Users Choice Awards to genealogy software that users have rated highly. Since 2008, GenSoftReviews, www.gensoftreviews.com has had users write 5,874 reviews for the 1,041 different genealogy-based programs listed at the site. Of these 1,041 ...

Yesterday, I logged into my account at my webhost Netfirms and I was met with a somewhat alarming message: That was not pleasing to me. I knew what that meant. Likely I’d need to make major revisions to my website to get my Behold blog and my GenSoftReviews site to work under the new version of PHP. My ...

In my last post, I discussed a methodology that I could quickly put together an ancestors-only tree for my niece at MyHeritage. I was able to get back to about 3rd great-grandparents on most of her lines. But it was her mother’s father’s mother’s side that started to get interesting. My niece’s ...

A few months ago, I decided it would be interesting to investigate my niece’s genealogy. I entered information about her parents and grandparents into a new tree at MyHeritage and let MyHeritage’s Record Hints and Smart Matches go to work. It wasn’t too long before I had a couple of hundred people ...

Two weeks ago, I was interviewed on Zoom by Ditsa Keren for an article that was published on DNAweekly today. DNAweekly publishes an interesting blog with a wide range of articles about consumer-based DNA tests that extend into their use by genealogists. They reach out and look for third-party software that ...

Ancestry has recently made changes to its display of the amount of DNA you match with someone. The amount is shown in cM (centimorgans). Most DNA testers using their DNA for genealogy purposes know what cM are and what they represent. Your DNA match list shows the Shared DNA you have with each of your ...

Big update Oct 27:  Much easier way to do this than in my post below.  Leah Larkin informed me that I can do all 3 scenarios at once like this: So all three hypothesis indeed can be included at once. And the results with WATO Version 2 come out as: Showing Hypothesis 1 (Brother) is 37 times ...

I’ve been quiet lately because I’ve been enjoying doing some research with my wife’s cousin Terry Lasky on one branch of their common families. Terry has got several dozen of his relatives on that side of the family to do DNA tests. One aspect of what we are doing led to Jennifer Mendelsohn suggesting ...

Lots has been happening on the DNA analysis front in the past few months. Lots of very divergent opinions on a whole bunch of issues. Here are my opinions. You are free to agree or disagree, but these are mine. AncestryDNA Ancestry has had performance issues. Couldn’t they have been more honest to ...