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…
Sometime on the morning of Sunday, 19 July 2020, the GEDmatch site was either hacked or experienced a severe programming…
This post has been updated On 15 July, 2020, AncestryDNA updated their “Matching White Paper“, which is a detailed document…
AncestryDNA has now tested more than 18 million people, making them, by far, the largest genealogical DNA database in the…
What Are the Odds? is one of the most helpful tools for autosomal DNA, and now it’s even better!
Two of the most useful aids for figuring out how you are related to your autosomal DNA matches are at…
Endogamy is a word that gets bandied around a lot in genetic genealogy circles, but what it means and how…