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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 15d 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

Updated Estimates of the Genealogical atDNA Database Sizes

April 23, 2017 thednageek 3d Comments

I recently published a post in which I estimated the effective database sizes for Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, and MyHeritage…

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

AncestryDNA Hits Four Million!

April 22, 2017 thednageek 2d Comments

One of my favorite things to do is update the graph I provide to the genetic genealogy community showing the…

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

Estimating the Sizes of the Genealogical atDNA Databases

April 17, 2017 thednageek 19d Comments

The past few months have brought some exciting news from two of the main autosomal DNA (atDNA) companies: AncestryDNA exceeded 3 million…

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

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