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During the summer, I took a DNA test with @Living_DNA. In addition to testing, I also took advantage of their free uploads, and uploaded both my 23andMe raw data, and my Family Tree DNA raw data. I already posted about my results from my test, but ...

A few days ago, Family Tree DNA released a new version of its chromosome browser. There are other people that have already described the improvements, including Kitty Cooper and Roberta Estes, but I’d like to focus on one item that’s changed that affects Double Match Triangulator users. New Link to Download ...

... talk I went to for the day was my own on “Using Double Match Triangulation to Find DNA Ancestors”. I thought it was well attended with 16 in the room, especially considering I was talking opposite Blaine Bettinger, Cyndi Ingle, Helen Smith, Dave Obee, Lesley Anderson and Mary Read. At 4:50 was the big raffle, so the entire crowd assembled together for one final ...

... Smith, who along with Blaine Bettinger was giving individual help to people with DNA questions. Then it was down to the main floor of this beautiful library… … where I enjoyed three talks. First was Kelowna local genealogist and Eastern European expert Xenia Stanford with “Advance Your Eastern European Research with a Baker’s Dozen of Unusual ...

WeGene is a Chinese company that up to now has done DNA testing in Shenzhen, China. They have grown to about 300,000 customers. They are going to open a second lab in Hong Kong so they can start offering services abroad. An article a couple of days ago on genomeweb gives more of the details. Their main site www.wegene.com is in Chinese. ...

In my last post, I compared the raw data from 5 DNA testing companies. I ended that article by describing how I then took my 5 sets of raw data and combined them into a more complete set. I ended up with a file that contained 1,389,750 different SNPs of which just 20,688 (1.5%) were no-calls. I then described how I uploaded it to ...

In March 2017, I compared my DNA raw data from Family Tree DNA against my DNA raw data from MyHeritage DNA.  I had tested with FTDNA at home on Nov 25, 2016 and with ...

... 6, 2018, being called: Unlock the Past in Seattle. It will have two streams – a DNA stream and an Irish/general stream. Speakers will include DNA experts Blaine Bettinger and Maurice Gleeson, as well as Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s list and Wayne Shepheard. If you plan to be in or near Seattle that day, do go. If not, the exciting news ...

... of years ago, I introduced the horrible acronym BGRN to represent a new notation for DNA relationships which I extended to also include non-genetic relationships. Using this notation, one can define precisely how one person is related to a second person. Using just the notation, I can programmatically determine the expected amount of DNA ...

Today, I received an email from Living DNA that my test results are now available. After watching several of the RootsTech livestreamed presentations by David Nicholson and Hannah Morden of Living DNA in February, their promise of their upcoming Family Networks capability to reconstruct ...