The sky is falling! The end is nigh! People are deleting their trees! Why? Because Ancestry recently updated their…
The Southern California Genealogy Society’s annual Jamboree begins tomorrow, June 4! Jamboree is perhaps my favorite conference for its intimate…
This post has been updated. Today, GEDmatch has a new look at https://app.gedmatch.com. It’s a long-overdue upgrade for a site…
DNA has been the best thing to hit genealogy since the invention of the census, but do you ever wonder…
This post has been updated. In the midst of political turmoil in the USA, two major changes took place in…
A delightful and practical surprise arrived in the mail this week from my genea-friend, Deborah Sweeney: a hand-made DNA-patterned mask!…
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…
UPDATE: In response to the coronavirus pandemic, MyHeritage is granting unlimited, free access to MyHeritage in Color™ for 30 days…
The petition is no longer active. GEDmatch has chosen to expose users to some forensic investigations even if those users…