This post has been updated. In the midst of political turmoil in the USA, two major changes took place in…
Remember when FamilyTreeDNA promised never to sell your genetic data? “Can the Other Guys Say That?” was the advertising campaign.…
While 2020 was an awful year in many respects—covid, social unrest, political chaos, and economic strife—it was good for one…
Do you inherit exactly half of your DNA from each parent? As with so many questions in genealogy and in…
Since mid-2017, the DNA Lab Processing Times Survey has crowd-sourced data on how long genetic genealogy test results take. The…
Considering a DNA test as a gift (or for yourself) this year? Not sure where to start? These guidelines can…
AncestryDNA updated their Terms and Conditions on 23 September, 2020. The Legal Genealogist has (as usual) has written an excellent…
A delightful and practical surprise arrived in the mail this week from my genea-friend, Deborah Sweeney: a hand-made DNA-patterned mask!…
As this post was set to publish, MyHeritage announced a phishing attack that may stem from the GEDmatch hack. (Read…
Two days ago, GEDmatch was hacked. Many of us saw bizarre DNA matches that shared too much DNA to be…