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The petition is no longer active.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…
As of December 9, 2019, GEDmatch is operated by Verogen, Inc. (“Verogen”) following the acquisition by Verogen of the GEDmatch…
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This post has been updated. Today, The New York Times published a shocking article. Some time this summer, GEDmatch granted…
DNA.Land was founded to unite the intellectual power of geneticists from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center with…
The genetic genealogy community is in turmoil. People are angry, accusations are flying, and friendships are sundering. All over something…