This post is updated as events transpire. This post lists key events in the evolution of “investigative genetic genealogy”, the…
This post has been updated. Today, The New York Times published a shocking article. Some time this summer, GEDmatch granted…
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‘So frustrating! 95% of my DNA matches don’t have trees!’ ‘People at Company X only test for their ethnicity estimates. …
Ancestry.com has finally updated their corporate page to say that their DNA database is “over 10 million people”. Until this…
What can you do when you find out your parents were closely related?