It’s beginning to look a lot like…
DNA holiday sale time! The Legal Genealogist readily admits it. I am a sucker for a DNA sale. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it’s not Sunday and here I am writing about DNA again. So sue me. It’s a sale, for pete’s sake. And not just a sale, but one that...Getting closer!
Another Battles match The Legal Genealogist has said it before and will (I devoutly hope) say it again and again: I love cousins. I especially love cousins who are willing to donate just that little bit of themselves that allows an analysis of their DNA against the...Changes at AncestryDNA
The good, the bad and the ugly So yesterday was the rollout of the changes in matching systems for folks who’ve had DNA tests at AncestryDNA. And, as usual, there’s good news and bad news in the changes. Enough to warrant breaking with The Legal...Oh those Cottrell men!
Y me??? With a second great grandfather like George Washington Cottrell, DNA testing was an obvious choice for The Legal Genealogist. George — my favorite ancestor — is my rogue. My rascal. My family scoundrel.1 And he’s undoubtedly my nemesis. He...Transfer time
Another open letter to my AncestryDNA cousins… NOTE: This blog’s recommendation of GEDmatch has been withdrawn due to privacy issues. See “Withdrawing a recommendation,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 15 May 2019)....DNA and the GPS
Sometimes we just have to The Legal Genealogist’s light reading just before setting off for this trip to Oregon for the Genealogical Forum of Oregon’s fall seminar was the current issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ). It’s one...MyHeritage partners with 23andMe
Linking trees and DNA Big news on the genetic genealogy front today — an announcement from MyHeritage that it has partnered with 23andMe to provide a tie-in between the DNA information of 23andMe and the family trees and matching technology of MyHeritage...The hapless haplogroup
That and $2.29 = coffee It’s another one of those things that comes up all the time in genetic genealogy. Someone, somewhere, will tell you that you don’t really need to do YDNA testing — the kind of DNA test that looks only at the male gender-linked...Make way for the Mikes
Serendipity strikes again So the semi-annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® is underway in Salt Lake City and, as is the BCG custom, Board-certified genealogists donated their time yesterday to offer free lectures to...Subscribe by Email
