Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. GIs in Germany: Which Brother? In late 1919 or early…
MyHeritage has exploded onto the genetic genealogy scene, growing from scratch to a database of more than one million people…
Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. The DNA Painter Lookup Tool We are learning how to…
Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. Testing Hypotheses In this second post of this series, I…
Scroll down for links to other posts in this series. Basic Probability Last year, I wrote a post entitled…
In “Escape from the Overlap Zone“, I wrote about a way to distinguish between relationships for which the shared amount…
UPDATE: Additional simulations by Andrew Millard using different recombination rates for men and women indicate that half-siblings and aunts/uncles/nieces/nephews can…
My Mawmaw (grandmother) lost her father when she was only 3. Her strongest memory of him was being held…
In an earlier post, I mentioned in passing that AncestryDNA’s Match White Paper (31 March 2016) misused the word meioses…
The one thing we genealogists probably want most from our autosomal DNA matches is something they can’t give us: an…