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Black Friday Breakthrough!

November 28, 2017 thednageek Leave a comment

AncestryDNA sold more than three times as many DNA tests during this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale as during the…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: AncestryDNA, autosomal DNA, Black Friday, sales

The Glass Is More Than Half Full—2017 Version

November 26, 2017 thednageek 25d Comments

“Ten thousand matches and only 10 of them have trees!” “Why do people spend money on a DNA test if…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, Family Tree DNA, family trees, GEDmatch

AncestryDNA’s Black Friday Sale!

November 23, 2017 thednageek 7d Comments

AncestryDNA has just announced their Black Friday sale, which goes live 23 November at 9:00 pm PST and lasts until…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: AncestryDNA, sales

MyHeritage Has Nearly 700,000 in Their Database!

November 14, 2017 thednageek 20d Comments

I received word today from Yaniv Erlich, the Chief Science Officer at MyHeritage, that their database contains 670,000 individuals! That’s…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: autosomal DNA, database size, MyHeritage

DNA Databases Continue to Grow Rapidly

November 10, 2017 thednageek 18d Comments

Well, it’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks in DNA World, what with AncestryDNA reporting that they’d surpassed 6 million…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, autosomal DNA, database size, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage

The Genetic Communities Challenge

October 16, 2017 thednageek 12d Comments

A little over 6 months ago, AncestryDNA introduced their new Genetic Communities feature. Genetic Communities are groups of people who…

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Posted in: DNA Testing, Ethnicity Estimates Filed under: AncestryDNA, contests, Genetic Communities

What’s New in Autosomal DNA Transfers

September 12, 2017 thednageek 64d Comments

UPDATES: Please see the list of updates to this post, which are at the bottom. For step-by-step instructions on how…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, atDNA, autosomal DNA transfers, DNA.Land, Family Tree DNA, GEDmatch, GEDmatch Genesis, Living DNA, MyHeritage, WeGene

Genealogical Database Sizes—August 2017 Update

August 8, 2017 thednageek 15d Comments

It’s time once again for one of my favorite posts: an update of how many people are in the autosomal…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, database size, Family Tree DNA, GEDmatch

MyHeritage Matching

July 21, 2017 thednageek 31d Comments

MyHeritage has made substantial gains since this review was published. Please see the links at the end of this post…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: MyHeritage

Reality Check—Changes at AncestryDNA

July 14, 2017 thednageek 11d Comments

On 13 July, AncestryDNA‘s official blog announced pending changes to how DNA tests are registered and managed in their system…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: AncestryDNA, informed consent

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