Information, tips, and other interesting finds on this personal journey
Last week, my wife received a message at 23andMe, which isn't out of the ordinary. Since I handle our accounts, I checked the message. It was from a woman who saw that her and my wife were estimated to be 5th cousins, based on their DNA matching. That's not that interesting, as most people have … [Read more...]
This is Part 4 in a series of post dedicated to finding out more information about your DNA test results from 23andMe or Family Tree DNA. If you haven’t read it, yet, view Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Today we're going to look into the last set of DNA that you can use in your research, Autosomal … [Read more...]
This is Part 3 in a series of post dedicated to finding out more information about your DNA test results from 23andMe or Family Tree DNA. If you haven’t read it, yet, view Part 1 or Part 2. I had the YDNA and mtDNA down pretty good in my head. One is paternal, one is maternal, and so on. Then … [Read more...]
This is Part 2 in a series of post dedicated to finding out more information about your DNA test results from 23andMe or Family Tree DNA. If you haven't read it, yet, view Part 1. There are four main types of DNA that can be used for genealogy purposes: Autosomal, X Chromosome, Y Chromosome, and … [Read more...]
In the last week or so I've dug deeper into my DNA testing results mainly from my 23andMe test. I hope to have this be my first post in a "series" of posts about DNA for genealogy since I've done a lot of other research about different types of information found in your DNA. Another genealogist … [Read more...]
I received an email the other day from 23andMe letting me know about their new "Ancestry Composition" tool. I let it go to the back-burner since I didn't have a chance to visit it the other day. Today visited the link and was quite impressed. This is how it works, according to their … [Read more...]
I'm going to delve deep into theoretical things here, but it's something that always sort of fascinated me. Since the completion of the human genome project and the advent of more accessible DNA testing for us "normal" people, there have been amazing things coming out of that area of science and … [Read more...]
Ancestry sent me an email a few months back giving me an early invitation to their new Ancestry DNA service. I couldn't resist, so I ordered one and sent it back in. The results were recently posted and there are some cool new things in there. The first interesting fact is that according to them, … [Read more...]
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