The New Year is in full swing and promises to be great for DNA-based education, with offerings from yours truly…
Verogen, the for-profit company that owns GEDmatch, recently increased the price to upload DNA for law-enforcement cases by more than…
Family legend holds that young John was hidden in a well when Indians attacked. His parents died in the skirmish,…
Forensic investigative genealogy (FGG), also called investigative genetic genealogy (IGG), burst into the public perception in April 2018 with the…
Coverage is the biggest concept in genetic genealogy that you’ve probably never heard of. DNA Painter has released a new tool that makes it easy to calculate.
The Zoo Problem Imagine a 5-year-old telling you about their trip to the zoo. They might, in breathless excitement, report…
Get more DNA matches from a single AncestryDNA test by uploading your data file to MyHeritage.
It’s that time of year, folks, when AncestryDNA does their annual update of ethnicity estimates! These are the percentages accompanied…
Negative evidence is the absence of something you would expect to see under the circumstances. We use negative evidence daily…
AncestryDNA recently introduced a new feature that maps your ethnicities onto your individual chromosomes. This beta chromosome painter can be…