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…