Big News! FamilyTreeDNA is delivering holiday gifts early! Y DNA haplogroups are beginning to be delivered as a free benefit to men who took the Family Finder test at FamilyTreeDNA. This is the first wave of a staggered rollout. Haplogroup … Continue reading
An expanded version of this article, including the genealogical aspects written for the Speak family, is available here. There is significantly more DNA information and analysis in this article, including STR values and autosomal analysis which can sometimes augment Y … Continue reading
I recorded 10 Ways to Find Your Native American Ancestor Using Y, Mitochondrial and Autosomal DNA for Legacy Family Tree Webinars. Webinars are free for the first week. After that, you’ll need a subscription. If you subscribe to Legacy Family … Continue reading
Using autosomal DNA matching alone, NPEs (nonparental events,) also known as misattributed paternity or parentage (MPEs,) undocumented adoptions, and sometimes other terms, often goes completely undetected, especially a few generations back in time. Generally, this phenomenon occurs when the believed … Continue reading
There has long been speculation about what happened to Lydia Brown, the wife of William Crumley III, and when. It doesn’t help a bit that William Crumley, her husband, was actually William Crumley the third, being named for both his … Continue reading
Somehow, I missed the announcement that Family Tree DNA now accepts uploads from MyHeritage. Other people may have missed a few announcements too, or don’t understand the options, so I’ve created a quick and easy reference that shows which testing vendors’ … Continue reading
Great news! Family Tree DNA now accepts autosomal file transfers for all Ancestry tests (meaning both V1 and V2) along with 23andMe V3 and V4 files. Before today, Family Tree DNA had only accepted Ancestry V1 and 23andMe V3 transfers, the files before Ancestry … Continue reading
We’re going to do three things in this article. Updating Your DNA Master Spreadsheet With New Matches Labeling Known Pileup Areas Utilizing Phased Family Finder Matches You must do item one above, before you can do item three…just in case … Continue reading
This article covers both sorting in Excel and how to identify an overlapping segment, and what that means to you as a genetic genealogist. I swore I wasn’t going to teach Excel, but there have been so many questions about … Continue reading
The introduction of the Phased Family Finder Matches has added a new way to view autosomal DNA results at Family Tree DNA and a powerful new tool to the genealogists toolbox. The Phased Family Finder Matches are the 9th tool provided … Continue reading
