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Month: March 2026

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The Whole Shebang! NextGen Sequencing Comes to Genealogy

March 23, 2026 thednageek 10d Comments

23andMe revolutionized the fields of personal genomics and genetic genealogy when they introduced the first direct-to-consumer autosomal DNA test in…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: DNA testing, ethnicity estimates, FamilyTreeDNA, MyHeritage DNA, NextGen sequencing, relative matching

Database Sizes—March 2026

March 14, 2026 thednageek 6d Comments

More than 54 million DNA kits are available for genealogical matching!

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, database growth, database size, FamilyTreeDNA, GEDmatch, MyHeritage DNA

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