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DNA has been/is fun but the payoff for me has been fairly small. Y-chromosome tests back in 2008 or so showed, beyond reasonable doubt, that my late dad's father really was his father. There had been a small question mark over that. Autosomal tests of cousins, uncles, aunts etc, with ...

... stumbling across the same issue when implementing AutoSegment. I also found that FTDNA en GEDmatch were sometimes quite off compared to other companies. One of the reasons for FTDNA back then was the fact they were still using build 36 whereas the others were using 37. Sometimes the locations were quite different, in some extreme cases ...

Have you looked closely at the y DNA data from 23andme or ancestry to see how often those snps have changed in a material way? Those would have greater consequences for genealogy where folks are leaning in those results to compare haplogroups. Thanks for the interesting post!

... I came across this article as I searched for information on how it compares to other DNA kits. Do you have an update on getting your full genome back and being able to compare your combined SNP’s?

... your data is pretty much worthless. Which is also the reason why I believe that DNA testing for genealogical purposes doesn't make much sense once you reach the pre church book era where documentation such as tax records and similar is scarce. Just my 2c Uwe

Louis, Great synopsis of the current state of affairs for the DNA world. Paul

I figured out what I needed for my setup was cd /mnt/g/Dropbox/DNA

... program but don't see the family tree anywhere (I believe it's supposed to be under DNA Relatives, right?).