At age 16, Jerry’s mother was working in a canning factory, where she met a young man. As things happen,…
AncestryDNA recently added color tags to their New and Improved DNA Matches beta feature (available here if you don’t already…
ThruLines are automatically added to DNA tests that meet the criteria described at the end of this post. AncestryDNA’s ThruLinesTM are…
Instructions for opting in to the beta test are at the bottom of this post. For RootsTech 2019, AncestryDNA is…
Did you know that AncestryDNA is using fully-identical regions to distinguish full siblings from half siblings? And apparently has been…
Source: DNA Painter Shared cM Project Tool Tool Type: website Purpose: rank possible relationships given the shared amount of DNA…
What can you do when you find out your parents were closely related?
This is my 100th post! A special thanks to all of my readers for making blogging so much fun. Scroll…
Variety is the spice of life, they say, but where does variety come from? Genetically speaking, it comes from mutations.…
The first post of this series ended with a reference to different “types” of DNA. In truth, DNA is DNA,…