DNA: the privacy sky is not falling
Chill out!! Okay, step back, take a deep breath, and chill out. Yes, genetic genealogy has taken it on the chin this week with lots of news stories that make it sound as though taking a DNA test to find out information about your family is the functional equivalent of...AncestryDNA: an explanation and a promise
More info from AncestryDNA Last Sunday’s post on interface improvements at AncestryDNA led to a couple of complaining comments about the new “has hints” feature for autosomal DNA matches in the Ancestry system. That’s the new alert system that AncestryDNA...AncestryDNA: interface improvements
Two down, a bunch to go There’s still an awful lot of room for improvement at AncestryDNA … but things are improving. Progress is s-l-o-w … but at least in two very concrete ways, the interface for autosomal DNA test results is better now than when...2012 look-back: DNA
DNA retrospective Here we are, in the last days of 2012. Mayan calendars notwithstanding, the world has not ended, the year is rolling along, and today is the last DNA Sunday of 2012. So… what were the top DNA posts for the year? The Legal Genealogist submits...NY and MD limits on 23andMe
“No DNA for you!” You remember that episode of Seinfeld with the Soup Nazi? If you didn’t stay on the good side of the soup stand owner, all you got was a stern “No soup for you!” The phrase went viral back before anybody even knew what going viral meant. The...December DNA doings
Price, presentation, permissions December has been one heck of a month so far for developments in genetic genealogy. First we had the change in the admixture reports from 23andMe.1 Then we had our first looks at the results from National Geographic’s new Geno...It’s Greek to me
First look at Geno 2.0 Okay, so The Legal Genealogist usually writes about DNA on Sunday. Therefore, I hereby declare that, this year, December 12th falls on a Sunday. Because my National Geographic Geno 2.0 results are in … and I can’t resist posting the...Admixture advances
Closer to soup Back about a million years ago, the Lipton Soup Company ran a television commercial where an annoying kid kept asking his mother, “Is it soup yet?” That’s the same sort of question genetic genealogists have been asking about the so-called...DNA education the easy way
YouTube videos With all the online, video-based learning about genealogy going on these days, it’s no surprise that plenty of good information is available in that same video-based style about DNA testing in general, and for genealogical purposes as well....Subscribe by Email
