This post has been updated On 15 July, 2020, AncestryDNA updated their “Matching White Paper“, which is a detailed document…
Two of the most useful aids for figuring out how you are related to your autosomal DNA matches are at…
AncestryDNA’s updated DNA Matches (now in beta testing; available here) has a nice little surprise for those of us who…
Did you know that AncestryDNA is using fully-identical regions to distinguish full siblings from half siblings? And apparently has been…
Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. The DNA Painter Lookup Tool We are learning how to…
Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. Testing Hypotheses In this second post of this series, I…
In “Escape from the Overlap Zone“, I wrote about a way to distinguish between relationships for which the shared amount…
The one thing we genealogists probably want most from our autosomal DNA matches is something they can’t give us: an…