About those traits…
Me and the Neanderthals So The Legal Genealogist just got around to taking a closer look at some of the “you have genes like (or unlike) the Neanderthals” reports over at 23andMe. Um... right. Just as I wouldn't take the geoethnic estimates to the bank, I don't think...
Ancestry retreats
License term change The date on the newly-updated terms and conditions at Ancestry.com still reads 3 August 2021. But there was a change made after that date. According to Ancestry now, users who upload content to Ancestry still give Ancestry a perpetual and...
One big change at Ancestry
A shift in the terms of service UPDATE [6 Aug 2021]: Ancestry has amended its terms, again, to say it didn't exactly mean it... See here. Ancestry has just updated its terms of service and privacy statement -- again -- and this time there is a change buried deep in...
Snippets 2021 v.6
Planned downtime at MyHeritage Our new virtual reality has had its up sides and its down sides. On the up side few events have been cancelled. On the down side even more events have been scheduled. Which means it's a busy time around The Legal Genealogist, with...
Tracking back…
A cool genetic visualization tool Rob Spencer is a scientist who's developed a set of tools for use with DNA results -- visualizing some of our genetic genealogy. He calls his website, Tracking Back, a place “for genetic genealogy tools, experimentation, and...
A Moore unmoored
No, he's not There are roughly a gazillion family trees on Ancestry and elsewhere that say Robert Wilson “Mustang” Moore (b 1808 NC) is the son of Joseph Moore (c1759 NC-1820 KY), and his wife Rebecca (c1759 NC-c1861 MS), whose maiden name may have been Ballew.[1. No,...
Lost and found at FTDNA
Looking at the cousin match changes Three weeks ago, Family Tree DNA began rolling out a number of changes, many of which greatly impacted its cousin-matching algorithm for its autosomal Family Finder test. It took a bit longer than the company expected, as glitches...
The separations
In life and in death It is perhaps something only a genealogist would notice. But it is still something ineffably sad. The separations of a babe from her mother, in life and in death. She rests with her paternal grandparents in the Mobridge, South Dakota, City...
Snippets 2021 v.5
That exceptional administrator A week of law. Almost a week of African-American research. A week of DNA. A week of federal records. Heading into a week of methodology. Oh, and don't forget the more than a week of the Germans. It's institute season, plus a conference...
Dotting the Ms
Chasing George ... again... Every so often, The Legal Genealogist's attention gets focused on George. You remember George. My nemesis scoundrel second great grandfather whose genetic makeup apparently never included anything vaguely resembling a gene for...
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