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New Numbers for the Shared cM Project
All of us genetic genealogists are extremely grateful to Blaine Bettinger for collecting statistics on the actual amounts of DNA shared for known family relationships. He just updated his numbers for...
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Super Large Numbers Do Not Work in my Ahnentafel to GEDCOM Tool
Alert, there is a bug in my tool to convert text files to GEDCOMs: very large Ahnentafel numbers like “46406041600” will cause it to hang. I will add code to ignore large numbers by May (end of this...
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New DNA Tools and Blog from a Scientist at Cornell
Much of the work to build tools and write articles to help testers with their DNA results has been done by citizen scientists, bloggers, computer programmers, and scientists from other fields like...
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A Nice New Feature at DNApainter.com
One tool I use all the time at the DNApainter site is the online shared cM calculator. This shows you the possible relationships that you have to a DNA match based on either the shared centimorgans...
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How to find your haplogroup and why do that?
Haplogroups fascinate me because they reveal our deepest ancestry. A haplogroup is a way of assigning a portion of your DNA to a category based on areas of very slowly changing markers. There are two...
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