Review: Finding Family
The search for an adoptee’s identity It was August of 1964, and Richard Hill — a brand new high school graduate getting ready to start college at Michigan State — was getting checked out for a medical complaint at the office of the doctor who had...Grandparents’ DNA
National Grandparents Day It’s National Grandparents Day today, 9 September 2012, in the United States. All over the country, if grandchildren are wise, they’ll be picking up the telephone to call their grandfathers, sending flowers to their grandmothers....The atDNA gamble
Playing the odds If there’s anything you learn fast when dealing with autosomal DNA (atDNA) — the kind of DNA where testing works across genders and helps you find cousins — it’s that you’re always playing the odds. The odds that someone...Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match
Those “secret” relatives The online Huffington Post asked the question on Friday in its UK Lifestyle section: could you have secret relatives? The examples the piece used were the link of First Lady Michele Obama to a white cousin in Alabama and the discovery by...Noting your DNA
Warning: a geeky time sink! Folks have long said that music is in the human soul. But who’d have thought it could be in our DNA as well? Turns out… lots of people have thought it… and done it. And if you have the raw data from your own autosomal DNA...Gedmatch: a DNA geek’s dream site
Great DNA utility website NOTE: This blog’s recommendation of GEDmatch has been withdrawn due to privacy issues.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). [Note: There’s an...First looks at AncestryDNA
First looks The new kid on the autosomal DNA block is AncestryDNA from Ancestry.com, joining the Family Finder test from Family Tree DNA and the Relative Finder test from 23andMe. Autosomal DNA testing, remember, is the kind that works across gender lines so you don’t...Blown away with DNA
Stepping out of the routine You never know, when you start down the path of genetic genealogy and DNA testing, what to expect. But one thing came clear to me this past week: it’s the very fact that you never know what to expect that makes the journey so...Geno 2.0 launches!
Announcing the Genographic Project’s Geno 2.0 In 2005, the National Geographic Society launched the Genographic Project, a first-of-its-kind in-depth look at the deep ancestral genetic patterns of the human race. It was one of the most successful research...Subscribe by Email
