Sometimes you just have to explore your tree to understand DNA relationships. In this post, I will share a free tool that can help you understand it in a visual way.
You can do this very...
The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy
I finally got around to reading Blaine Bettinger's book The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy. DNA research has a learning curve and that learning curve will be...
AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimates Update
In this post, you can read more about the recent AncestryDNA Ethnicity Estimates Update and explain as to why this is a good thing.
About a month ago I read that AncestryDNA was changing...
A Look at Endogamy (Intermarriage within a Community)
In this post, A Look at Endogamy (Intermarriage within a Community) I hope to help explain why your DNA and the genealogical paper trail sometimes don't add up.
A very common complaint that I...
How to Upload Your DNA to MyHeritage
If you have tested your DNA with any other company you are in luck. In this post, I show you How to Upload Your DNA to MyHeritage for free.
When I say any other company I mean AncestryDNA,...
Transfer Your DNA Raw Data to FamilyTreeDNA for Free
If you have tested your autosomal DNA with AncestryDNA and or 23andMe now you can transfer your DNA Raw data to FamilyTreeDNA for free. Yes, you heard right for FREE. Before you could also...
Deep Ancestry Inside the Genographic Project
For a book that was written in 2007, Deep Ancestry Inside the Genographic Project by Spencer Wells continues to be very relevant. Since I often encounter people that tell me that they have tested...
How to Separate Your Maternal and Paternal Matches with FTDNA
With this post, you will learn how to separate your maternal and paternal matches with FTDNA even if you have not tested your parents.
This is possible due to a feature that FTDNA has. As you...
DNA USA A Genetic Portrait of America
After reading the Seven Daughter's of Eve book by Bryan Sykes I became a fan of his. I then read Adam's Curse: The Science that Reveals our Genetic Destiny and I just finished reading another book...
Adam’s Curse The Science that Reveals Our Genetic Destiny
Bryan Sykes follows up on The Seven Daughters of Eve with an equally challenging and well-written book titled Adam's Curse The Science that Reveals Our Genetic Destiny.
In this book, Sykes looks...