A few days after I published the article, Concepts – Segment Size, Legitimate and False Matches, Philip Gammon, a statistician who lives in Australia, posted a comment to my blog. Great post Roberta! I’m a statistician so my eyes light … Continue reading
Have you ever had something you need to refer back to and can’t find it? I do this more often than I care to admit. About a year ago, I did a study when I was writing the “Concepts – Parental Phasing” … Continue reading
I recently used a technique called parental phasing as part of the proof that one Curtis Lore found in Pennsylvania was the same person as Curtis Benjamin Lore, found later in Indiana. Given that I’ve already used parental phasing as part of a … Continue reading
Do you ever have one of those “lightbulb” moments? I do. I was wishing there was a way at GedMatch to compare everyone against me and my mother at the same time – to see who we both match. And … Continue reading
Over the past few weeks there has been quite a bit of discussion surrounding phasing and matching of autosomal DNA. I’ve had several questions about what phasing is, why it might be important, and how phasing affects matching. These topics go … Continue reading
The X chromosome lives a genetic and genealogical life all of its own because of its unique inheritance properties which vary depending on whether you are a male and inherit the X only from your mother, or a female an … Continue reading
This is the fourth in our series of articles about searching for unknown close family members, specifically; parents, grandparents, or siblings. However, these same techniques can be applied by genealogists to ancestors further back in time as well. I introduced … Continue reading
The official dates of RootsTech 2022 were March 3-5, but the sessions and content in the vendor booths are still available. I’ve compiled a list of the sessions focused on DNA, with web links on the RootsTech YouTube channel YouTube … Continue reading
One of my readers asked why we don’t use close relatives for triangulation. This is a great question because not using close relatives for triangulation seems counter-intuitive. I used to ask my kids and eventually my students and customers if … Continue reading
I’ve written a number of articles about autosomal DNA triangulation. I’ve created this repository to provide gather various resources all in one place to make it easier for you to find what you need. Triangulation Concepts and Tools What is … Continue reading
