The past year has seen a chilling in the genetic genealogy industry: DNA kit sales are down drastically since April…
The genetic genealogy community is in turmoil. People are angry, accusations are flying, and friendships are sundering. All over something…
A family friend has leukemia. He’s 11. Without chemotherapy, he would have died. Thanks to modern biomedical research, though, he’s…
This post has been updated. Want to share your DNA results with a collaborator or get extra help from an…
Almost. Family Tree DNA almost got it right. In late January 2019, we learned that FTDNA had quietly changed their…
AncestryDNA’s updated DNA Matches (now in beta testing; available here) has a nice little surprise for those of us who…
Instructions for opting in to the beta test are at the bottom of this post. Ancestry has pulled off a…
On 31 January, 2019, we learned from Buzzfeed that Family Tree DNA had allowed the FBI to use their customer…
This post has been updated. Today, Buzzfeed broke the story that Family Tree DNA has been allowing FBI agents to…
When I get a new mystery DNA match—unknown connection, possibly no tree at all—the first thing I check is how…