AncestryDNA have just launched their latest ancestral populations update. One of the changes I can see is that I’m now considered to be 7% Dutch. I could just smile about this and ponder whether it influenced me moving to Amsterdam as young man. But since AncestryDNA have also updated their Chromosome Painter, I can also analyze it in a bit more detail.
In this post I will explain how you can import GEDCOM and segment data into the site. As a reminder, DNA Painter does not use raw DNA data.
There’s a new feature within DNA Painter that lets you add Y and mtDNA information to your chromosome map. This post explains how to do it.
For this guest post, I’m pleased to welcome Jennifer Wiebe, a professional genealogist based in Montréal, Quebec. In this article, Jennifer discusses the steps involved in using WATO plus to find an unknown parent.
New books in the genetic genealogy field do not come along that often. As well as autosomal, I’ve taken both Y- and mitochondrial (mt) DNA tests, but I feel less confident when working with them. This book (full title The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA: Y-DNA, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X-DNA) is therefore very welcome.
In case you didn’t hear, you can now see how much DNA your matches share with each other within Ancestry Pro Tools. I’ve been very patient, and this feature finally arrived for me late on the evening of June 24th, 2024.
An overview of the steps involved in migrating a tree from the What are the Odds tool to WATO plus. You can now do this in one click.
What are the odds plus (WATO+), a new and overhauled version of the popular WATO tool, was released last week. In this article I’ll focus on what’s new in WATO+…
I recently launched WATO+, the new version of What are the Odds? Suggest Hypotheses is a popular feature in the tool. The goal of this function is to try out every possible position in the tree for the unknown parent. However, this can be a mixed blessing as sometimes there are an overwhelming number of
Exciting times: the new version of What are the Odds? (WATO) will be released within the next month. This includes a raft of updates that I hope will make the tool more useful and easier to understand.