Comparison Between Me and My Two Nieces – AncestryDNA October 21, 2019

Today, I looked at my AncestryDNA results with my two closest matches – my sister’s two daughters. I hadn’t compared the amount of shared DNA between us before today when I was looking to see if there were new close matches on AncestryDNA.

Shared DNA between me, niece 1 (the older sister), and niece 2 (the younger sister).

Niece 1: 1,742 centimorgans shared across 62 DNA segments

Niece 2: 1,603…

DNAPainter: Ancestral Trees — DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy DNA Saturdays October 12, 2019

DNAPainter has introduced a new feature, Ancestral Trees. You can create a tree by hand or upload a GEDCOM file from your own software or one of the online vendors who support a tree export to a GEDCOM file, such as… 1,838 more words

via DNAPainter: Ancestral Trees — DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy.

I decided this would make a good DNA Saturdays post.

Be Wary When Doing DNA Comparisons Between Different Chipsets – September 22, 2019

If you go here, https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_SNP_comparison_chart, you can see wide variations between different chipsets, including those within the same company. Checking 23andMe v2 chip vs. v5 chip, the amount of SNPs in common is 98,965. That’s a far cry from 500K – 900K+ SNPs shared with some other chipsets. The fewer SNPsshared in common, the greater the likelihood of missing a true…

MyHeritage Acquires Promethease and SNPedia – September 7, 2019

I saw this on MyHeritage about 40 minutes ago – MyHeritage Acquires Promethease and SNPedia: https://blog.myheritage.com/2019/09/myheritage-acquires-promethease-and-snpedia/. There are some advantages, for example Promethease will be free through the end of 2019 and a few other items mentioned below. If you are not familiar with Promethease – https://www.promethease.com or SNPedia – https://www.s…

I’m pleased to announce that trees are now available at DNA Painter for all registered users. A tree on DNA Painter is an attractive single-page summary of one person’s direct ancestors that you can search and optionally share: – Build a simple…

GEDmatch Update – DNA Saturdays August 31, 2019

I missed this on GEDmatch as I rarely read the updates when I logged in. In case others missed it, I made it this week’s DNA Saturdays post. If you upload more than 1 kit for yourself or another person, it’s best to make the other kits Research only or No Public Access as it reduces the number of slots available for those looking to see if that match other people.

As of June 1, the original…