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Sunday, December 14, 2014

AncestryDNA Circles Rolling Right Off The Page & Other Oddities

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Ancestry and the little genealogists? I've been working on those novel AncestryDNA Circles, which are currently deep in beta. Why...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

DNA: Grading Autosomal Testing Companies

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What I've been doing so far with my test results is supporting my paper trail trees with DNA evidence. I haven't broken down any b...
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Sunday, December 7, 2014

Are The New Moderate Matches Good?

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I had to correct this post again. Timber is a filter that AncestryDNA uses and could be a reason for the segment size differences? Breaking ...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014

How DNA Segment Data Has Helped Me

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Big time triangulation When I first took the Family Tree DNA, Family Finder autosomal DNA test, I had no idea how I could use the segm...
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Friday, November 28, 2014

Dear Myrtle Video Leads To Revisiting Of My Own Ethnicity Results

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Looking at the AncestryDNA ethnicity results again after watching Dear Myrt's video I see that the Scandinavian population does overla...
Wednesday, November 26, 2014

"Finding Your Roots" Season Finale & What is AncestryDNA V.2 Worth?

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Chart Produced from Family Tree DNA results and Excel The " Finding Your Roots " Season finale was one of their best shows o...
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Saturday, November 22, 2014

Does AncestryDNA Respect The Genetic Genealogy Community?

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For as long as Ancestry had been in the Autosomal DNA business the genetic genealogy community has been requesting the addition of a chro...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Hitting The Earth: AncestryDNA Reality Check

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Reality struck me yesterday when I learned approximately how much DNA I share with some of my AncestryDNA matches There were many thousand...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

"Finding Your Roots" Ep. 9 & AncestryDNA Giveth and Taketh Away (So Far So Good)

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My AncestryDNA circles "Finding Your Roots" Ep.9 created a challenge for the shows research staff. This show focused on Greek...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

"Finding Your Roots" Ep. 8 & The Autosomal DNA Tangle: Is AncestryDNA Right?

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I really enjoyed episode 8 of "Finding Your Roots" focusing on British ancestry. I love to watch anything involving the Britis...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Happy Veterans Day 2014 To All Veterans!

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It seems like I always make progress on my Family's Veteran ancestors around Veterans' day. Maybe it's because the genealogy ...
Saturday, November 8, 2014

GEDmatch Says 14.7 cM's FTDNA Says 8.68? Who's Right?

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Our Owens match contacted me yesterday. I found out that I was comparing with the exact same kit at GEDmatch as the one at FTDNA. So there w...
Friday, November 7, 2014

GEDmatch Segment Size May Be Different From That Reported by Your Testing Company

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I found a long  awaited match on our Owens line at Family Tree DNA yesterday. This person evidently transferred her results to Family Tre...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014

DNA News: "Finding Your Roots" Episode 7 and Tying Loose Ends

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Chart pinpointing DNA matches Episode 7 of "Finding Your Roots" featured guests with Jewish roots. It was a very moving epi...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

DNA News: Episode 6 of "Finding Your Roots" & 7cM and 700 SNP Threshold

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Episode 6 of "Finding Your Roots" was another interesting episode. The theme was enslaved ancestors.  A highlight of the episo...
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