The purpose of this post is to hopefully help explain why your DNA and the genealogical paper trail sometimes, or in my case most of the time, don’t add up. A very common complaint that I get is that people …
MyHeritage DNA Test Review
If you have been following our this blog then you are aware that last week I uploaded my raw DNA data from AncestryDNA to MyHeritage. Once I finished uploading it I got a pop up message stating that I would …
How to Upload Your DNA to MyHeritage
If you have tested your DNA with any other company you are in luck. You can upload your raw DNA data to MyHeritage for free. When I say any other company I mean AncestryDNA, FamilyTreeDNA, and 23andme. They are by …
FamilyTreeDNA Offers Free AncestryDNA and 23andMe Autosomal Transfers
If you have tested your autosomal DNA with AncestryDNA and or 23andMe now you can transfer your Raw data to FamilyTreeDNA for free. Yes you heard right for FREE. Before you could also transfer for free and would only get …
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 with National Geographic on their Genographic …
12th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy
This past November the 11 through the 13th I had the opportunity to attend the 12th International Conference on Genetic Genealogy in Houston, Texas. The conference was being hosted by Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) and it was mainly for group administrators. …
Changes to FTDNA’s myFamilyTree
Change is not always good but this time it is. FamilyTreeDNA added some great features to their myFamilyTree. myFamilyTree is exactly what the name implies, it is your family tree. It is the place where you can create your family …
How to Separate Your Maternal and Paternal Matches with FTDNA
I had the opportunity of attending the 12th Annual International Conference on Genetic Genealogy 2016 and on one of the presentations I learned something that I had no idea FTDN could do. It is a very powerful feature that I …
DNA USA: A Genetic Portrait of America
After reading the Seven Daughter’s of Eve book by Bryan Sykes I became a huge 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 …
FamilyTreeDNA’s Family Finder Test Has New Low Price
It’s already been several weeks since FamilyTreeDNA announced that their FamilyFinder test (autosomal DNA) is now available for the low price of $79.00. I think this is great since it will only allow more people to be able to test. …
