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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

RootsTech 2015

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RootsMapper uses your Family Search Tree to map Ancestral locations. I enjoyed watching the live feed from RootsTech 2015 , as usual, t...
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Thursday, February 12, 2015

The McDonald's Of DNA Does It Again!

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You can stop researching your family tree AncestryDNA has made it unnecessary. Just take their DNA test and they'll find your ances...
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Sunday, February 8, 2015

AncestryDNA Sells 100,000 Kits In December 2014 And Comparing Cousins Results

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Ancestry.com reported their 4th quarter earnings, and year end earning results, on February 3rd ( you can listen to the full report here ). ...
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Sunday, February 1, 2015

AncestryDNA Non Subscription Accounts Downgraded Plus People Behind The Segments

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I wrote last week that AncestryDNA now requires a $49 annual subscription to review matches for non subscribers. It's been very diffi...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Bait-And-Switch At AncestryDNA

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Correction : the requirement for a subscription only applies to new tests after last fall's changes. You will get the screen shown on...
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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Which DNA Company Has The Best Matching System?

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I am now finally able to evaluate the new matching system, at AncestryDNA, which uses the Timber filter to eliminate supposedly IBS segm...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

DNA News of the Week: 23andMe Digs Out Of Hole & No Chromosome Browser at AncestryDNA

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My first Exam for a Udemy Genetics course News out of the "Association of Professional Genealogists’ Professional Management ...
Saturday, January 3, 2015

2014 Year in Genetic Genealogy: Looking Backward And Looking Forward

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 Family Tree DNA myOrigins was introduced this year Happy New Year 2015! We began the year 2014 with a push to grow our Forgey/For...
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...