I wrote this post for my father’s cousin, whose AncestryDNA results just came in. I hope others can benefit from…
Have you ever looked at a particularly large shared segment with a distant cousin and wondered “What are the odds?” We wouldn’t…
If you have taken the AncestryDNA test and “attached” a family tree to your results, Ancestry’s computers will search the trees…
On March 28, 2017, AncestryDNA rolled out a novel and exciting feature called Genetic Communities — GCs for short — as…
Last month, scientists from AncestryDNA published a research paper in the journal Nature Communications that describes the science underlying the forthcoming…
In an earlier post, I mentioned in passing that AncestryDNA’s Match White Paper (31 March 2016) misused the word meioses…
One of my favorite visualization tools for family trees is one I recently discovered at https://learnforeverlearn.com/ancestors/. It is being developed by…
The one thing we genealogists probably want most from our autosomal DNA matches is something they can’t give us: an…