Genetic genealogy needs to protect itself with cryptosignatures.
AncestryDNA is rolling out a new pricing scheme, called AncestryDNA Plus, that charges a small subscription fee to access to…
Christine Davis of DavisDNA was perplexed. And with good reason! A few weeks earlier, she’d uploaded a female client’s AncestryDNA…
What is a centimorgan, anyway?
This post has been updated. The Terms and Conditions at MyHeritage state: Using the DNA Services for law enforcement purposes,…
QUESTION: A reader contacted me recently to ask: Is it true that half-relationship DNA “fades” faster? And if that’s the…
Oops! I’ve made an error in some of the analyses for this post. I will update it as soon as…
Relationship Predictor Survey The Relationship Predictor Survey was launched in March 2023 to collect large-scale data from citizen scientists (like…
Relationship Predictor Survey There are now several tools that predict which genealogical relationships are most likely for given amounts of…
In a fit of anger, William Leslie Arnold murdered his parents in 1958 in Nebraska. He escaped jail in 1967,…