Well, it’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks in DNA World, what with AncestryDNA reporting that they’d surpassed 6 million…
Ancestry is offering 50% off memberships for Veterans Day! This is a 24-hour flash sale, from 9 p.m. PST November…
A little over 6 months ago, AncestryDNA introduced their new Genetic Communities feature. Genetic Communities are groups of people who…
NOTE: The original version of this post used an inappropriate simplification of the math. Ann Turner, Louis Kessler, and Andrew…
We write wills to provide for our loved ones after we die and to ensure that precious family heirlooms go…
Bessie Elizabeth Reid (1871–1905) had a hard life. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on 17 Jul 1871, she was the…
UPDATES: Please see the list of updates to this post, which are at the bottom. For step-by-step instructions on how…
In “Escape from the Overlap Zone“, I wrote about a way to distinguish between relationships for which the shared amount…
UPDATE: Additional simulations by Andrew Millard using different recombination rates for men and women indicate that half-siblings and aunts/uncles/nieces/nephews can…
Have you ever noticed that some bloggers (myself included) post links to a genealogy-related site that don’t look quite like…