Looking at recombination
Mixing it up with autosomal DNA Remember when you were a kid and you did something your mother didn’t like? Remember what she’d say? “Why can’t you be more like (fill in the blank with the name of the particular sibling, cousin or neighbor who...If at first you don’t succeed…
… try, try again So a whole bunch of new Family Finder autosomal DNA results came in this week over at Family Tree DNA, and The Legal Genealogist has her fingers crossed one more time. There are some promising leads in this batch. There’s at least one more...Those pesky percentages
Not soup yet!! So… do you remember those Lipton soup commercials? The ones where the kids kept asking if it was “soup yet”? That’s the question genealogists seem to be asking today about what are called ethnicity estimates: those percentages we see in our...Term of the day: autosomes
Travel obligations and internet issues are going to be interfering with daily posts for at least some of the next 10 days to two weeks. So nobody will go into withdrawal, however, The Legal Genealogist offers… The term of the day: AUTOSOMES. So…...Term of the day: Mitochondrial DNA
Travel obligations and internet issues are going to be interfering with daily posts for at least some of the next 10 days to two weeks. So nobody will go into withdrawal, however, The Legal Genealogist offers… The term of the day: MITOCHONDRIAL DNA. Frequently...DNA and the DAR
Welcoming DAR to the 21st century! So… the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution has decided to stick its toes — again — into the 21st century. Its President General announced yesterday that, starting the first of next year,...FTDNA redesign: good, bad and ugly
Family Finder redesign No, you didn’t sleep through a few days — today isn’t Sunday. And though The Legal Genealogist usually writes about DNA only on Sunday, the brand-spanking-new interface rolled out yesterday by Family Tree DNA for its Family...Games grandparents play
One not for the record books There are lots of games grandparents play with their grandchildren. The card game Uno. The board game Monopoly. The word game Bananagrams. But there’s one game grandparents shouldn’t play with their grandchildren. It’s...Decoding the individual genetic code
Two genomes in one So a science report in The New York Times this past week tells us this whole individual genetic code business may be a little more complicated than we thought. The article, which ran on Tuesday, suggests that a fair number of people have genetic...Subscribe by Email
