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Optimism for 2021

January 3, 2021 thednageek 8d Comments

While 2020 was an awful year in many respects—covid, social unrest, political chaos, and economic strife—it was good for one…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 2020, covid, database size, year in review

Autosomal DNA Database Growth

January 17, 2020 thednageek 25d Comments

New intel on database sizes has rolled in over the past 6 weeks, so it’s time to update the autosomal…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, database growth, database size, Family Tree DNA, GEDmatch, MyHeritage

Genealogical Database Growth Slows

June 22, 2019 thednageek 61d Comments

The past year has seen a chilling in the genetic genealogy industry:  DNA kit sales are down drastically since April…

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Posted in: Lagniappe Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, database growth, database size, Family Tree DNA, GEDmatch, investigative genetic genealogy (IGG), law enforcement, MyHeritage

MyHeritage Has More Than 1.75 Million DNA Users!

September 16, 2018 thednageek 24d Comments

As of early September 2018, the MyHeritage DNA database had 1.75 million users.1  Since the launch of their DNA service…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: autosomal DNA transfers, database size, MyHeritage

Database Sizes—September 2018 Update

September 3, 2018 thednageek 37d Comments

Ancestry.com has finally updated their corporate page to say that their DNA database is “over 10 million people”.  Until this…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, database size, Family Tree DNA, GEDmatch, MyHeritage

Fun With Factorials

March 6, 2018 thednageek 12d Comments

Ever wonder how much computer processing goes into relative matching? Probably not, but there’s some fun math behind it, so…

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Posted in: Lagniappe Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, computation, database size, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage, relative matching

MyHeritage Has Nearly 700,000 in Their Database!

November 14, 2017 thednageek 20d Comments

I received word today from Yaniv Erlich, the Chief Science Officer at MyHeritage, that their database contains 670,000 individuals! That’s…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: autosomal DNA, database size, MyHeritage

DNA Databases Continue to Grow Rapidly

November 10, 2017 thednageek 18d Comments

Well, it’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks in DNA World, what with AncestryDNA reporting that they’d surpassed 6 million…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, autosomal DNA, database size, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage

Genealogical Database Sizes—August 2017 Update

August 8, 2017 thednageek 16d Comments

It’s time once again for one of my favorite posts: an update of how many people are in the autosomal…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: 23andMe, AncestryDNA, database size, Family Tree DNA, GEDmatch

Autosomal Testing Growth Graph — Now With GEDmatch!

May 17, 2017 thednageek 4d Comments

I’ve updated the autosomal testing growth graph with current and historical numbers provided by the good folks at GEDmatch. Feel…

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Posted in: DNA Testing Filed under: database size, GEDmatch

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