The layout of the DNA match summary by Nancy Jarman-Dunn in a Facebook post in the Genetic Genealogy Tips & Techniques group caught my eye. I think I’ll summarize my results this year using Nancy’s layout and update it every year in the future to see my progress. I keep track of this information in a ...

I’ve been working on DMT version 3.0 for the past few months and was hoping not to have to release anything before it’s ready. Unfortunately, a few file format changes at some of the companies have caused DMT 2.1.1 to no longer recognize their files. In October, I noted that Family Tree DNA made ...

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 at that time, their “Family Networks” which is what they ...

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 ...

Today at the #kdgs2018 in Kelowna B.C. was a full slate of talks in 4 time slots, 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon, with 7 speakers to choose from in each time slot. The venue today was another beautiful space, this time at the Okanagan College.   Claire Smith-Burns opened the day from the grand ...

It was a good day at #kdgs2018 here in Kelowna, B.C. The venue during the day was the beautiful Kelowna district library downtown. The second floor of the library contains two full rows of shelves that are the reference materials belonging to the Kelowna District Genealogical Society. I’m sure there are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 MyHeritage DNA at RootsTech on Feb 10, 2017. Since then, I ordered tests and tested at home with 23andMe on Dec 2, 2017, AncestryDNA on Dec ...

Gould Genealogy & History @GouldGenealogy is an Australian company started in 1976 by Alan Phillips. They have a physical store in Adelaide, but sell over 5,000 products for genealogists online at their website including books, ebooks, software and stationary. and include many publications they have ...

A couple 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 ...

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 family trees intrigued ...

Today, MyHeritage announced a new feature – a brand new filtering system for DNA matches. They describe it here on the MyHeritage Blog. They say they are rolling out the feature gradually, so you may not see it yet. I can see the new features and I thought I’d give it a run-through. They now show me ...

Genome Mate Pro (GMP) is a program written by Rebecca Walker and is designed to organize all your DNA matches and match information. This is not a simple program to use, but it supposedly does a lot for you. I have DNA tested now at FamilyTreeDNA (autosomal, BigY-500, mt-full), 23andMe, MyHeritage DNA and ...

For over 30 years, genealogy software has relied on the GEDCOM standard to transfer data between programs. There have been advances in the past years to allow programs to directly sync to online family trees, but that is nowhere near perfected and very few programs have the capability. So the fallback is still ...

I’m not sure exactly how it happened, but a genealogy program named FindMyFamilyHeritageAncestryPastSearch.com appeared on GenSoftReviews this morning: I’ve never heard of this program before. Have you? The program even had two reviews, one good one, and one not so good one. Overall, the two ratings ...

This was the topic of a recent Dick Eastman article. The article is from Dick’s plus edition, so you need to subscribe to see it in full and the comments. I did comment and here is my feeling on the subject: The future is definitely the one-trees that FamilySearch, Geni, WikiTree and others have created, ...

This morning, I received my DNA test results from AncestryDNA. It completes my quadfecta and now gives me results with the big four: Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, MyHeritage DNA and now Ancestry DNA. Living DNA has been working recently to turn the big four into a big five, but to date I haven’t tested there ...

Both #genchat and #genchatDNA are Twitter chat sessions which meet periodically and gather together genealogists to provide their set of insights about the current topic. Tomorrow, I am the #genchatDNA featured “Answerer”. If you are a genealogist who is also on Twitter, join me tomorrow, Saturday ...

I’ve just released version 2.1 of DMT which includes support for MyHeritage DNA’s new segment download files. MyHeritage DNA made some big announcements last week at #RootsTech, and included among those was the ability to download your match list and your segment match list. Double Match Triangulator ...

Saturday is the most difficult day to have a #NotAtRootsTech day for me, because all of the family is home and I have to excuse myself upstairs to the office and mostly ignore them. But let’s continue. First I tried to catch up on the #RootsTech twitter feeds and blogs which I found impossible to ...

Friday. Caught up on my Twitter feed from last night. One tweet from Nicole Dyer led me to her blog post about Diana’s classes on Source Citations and Getting Organized. They made the presentation slides available so I took a look and also downloaded their great handouts from the RootsTech App. ...

Thursday. Watched the Live Stream Keynote Speaker: Brandon Stanton. “I get to wake up in the morning and choose the work I want to do.” “Following your dreams, is nothing but hard work.” Took a look at Randy Seaver’s Compendium for new posts I hadn’t seen. Read ...

RootsTech 2018 has started. This year it is a 4 day affair running from Wednesday to Saturday. They added on Wednesday, which last year, was an Innovator Summit day and an extra you had to get a ticket to separately. This year, the day was part of the package. Last year there were a lot of people on Wednesday, ...

GenSoftReviews reached a milestone and now has 1000 different genealogy programs listed at the site. The numbers have been creeping up over time. GenSoftReviews started in Sept 2008 with the 355 programs I transferred over from my my old genealogy software links page. The number grew to 466 by the end of ...

A programmer develops an original idea for a program and spends time writing it. Once you’ve got it working to some point, you put it online and test the waters. If it’s well taken, you go out on tour. A songwriter develops some original ideas for some new songs and spends time putting the tracks together. ...

I’ve just released a new version of DMT, with many improvements.   Excel No Longer Required The previous version of DMT used a technique called Excel Automation to generate its Excel files. It used the Excel libraries that would be installed on your computer with Excel, so DMT required that you had ...

I hadn’t tried this one before. Have you? It’s a Tier 1 tool, so you have to pay GEDmatch the $10 a month to use it. What an imaginative innovative idea. They’re using expected autosomal sharing and expected X sharing between two people to determine relationships and they show a tree for the two ...

I’ve been working away the past couple of months to finish off Version 2 of Double Match Triangulator. There’s lots of major improvements, and I’m hoping to find ways to get it to do some of the analysis for you as well. What Double Match Triangulator does differently than other DNA matching tools, is ...