While 2020 was an awful year in many respects—covid, social unrest, political chaos, and economic strife—it was good for one…
New intel on database sizes has rolled in over the past 6 weeks, so it’s time to update the autosomal…
The past year has seen a chilling in the genetic genealogy industry: DNA kit sales are down drastically since April…
As of early September 2018, the MyHeritage DNA database had 1.75 million users.1 Since the launch of their DNA service…
Ancestry.com has finally updated their corporate page to say that their DNA database is “over 10 million people”. Until this…
Ever wonder how much computer processing goes into relative matching? Probably not, but there’s some fun math behind it, so…
I received word today from Yaniv Erlich, the Chief Science Officer at MyHeritage, that their database contains 670,000 individuals! That’s…
Well, it’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks in DNA World, what with AncestryDNA reporting that they’d surpassed 6 million…
It’s time once again for one of my favorite posts: an update of how many people are in the autosomal…
I’ve updated the autosomal testing growth graph with current and historical numbers provided by the good folks at GEDmatch. Feel…