The Zoo Problem Imagine a 5-year-old telling you about their trip to the zoo. They might, in breathless excitement, report…
It’s that time of year, folks, when AncestryDNA does their annual update of ethnicity estimates! These are the percentages accompanied…
Negative evidence is the absence of something you would expect to see under the circumstances. We use negative evidence daily…
AncestryDNA recently introduced a new feature that maps your ethnicities onto your individual chromosomes. This beta chromosome painter can be…
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We’ve been overestimating the size of 23andMe’s database for a while now. No more!
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According to Ancestry.com‘s corporate page, they now have more than 20 million tested people in their DNA database. This is…
One of the best things about AncestryDNA is the ability to color-code your DNA match list. There are 24 colors,…
AncestryDNA updated their Terms and Conditions on 23 September, 2020. The Legal Genealogist has (as usual) has written an excellent…
This post has been updated On 15 July, 2020, AncestryDNA updated their “Matching White Paper“, which is a detailed document…