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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 easily with a free online tool called "Exploring Family Trees". What is great about this tool is that it helps you visualize the…
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 drastically decreased by just reading this book. This book will be a great read to anyone just getting started in genetic genealogy and a reference to the more experienced researcher. The book is divided into…
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 their reference population from 3000 to 16000. Guess what? This past Thursday they flipped the switch and everyone's ethnicity estimate was recalculated. Before I…
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 get is that people tell me: "DNA lies, It says I am related to so and so as third cousins but…
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, FamilyTreeDNA, and 23andme. They are by far the biggest and undisputed go to companies to test your DNA…
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 transfer for free and would only get your top 20 matches. Need to learn more about Autosomal DNA check out our…
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 with National Geographic on their Genographic Project, I had to buy this book. I bought it for two reasons. I wanted…
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 can see these are my results. Next to the All tab you find three more labeled "Paternal", "Maternal", and "Both". Below…
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 of his, DNA USA A Genetic Portrait of America. His way of writing is so simple and helps the…
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 to a possible future without men. The seeds of the book's topics were sown when Sykes met a pharmaceutical company chairman who shared…