I’m very pleased to announce Places, a significant new feature at DNA Painter. I’ve wanted to work with maps for a long time. This is not just because they’re visually striking, but because seeing ancestral locations mapped out makes it easier to understand my tree and where I came from. My goal is to provide
This year’s RootsTech conference is in March. DNA Painter will be exhibiting for the sixth time (and the fifth time in person). You can read about previous visits in my blog post from last year. RootsTech In-person in Salt Lake City, Utah The event is held at the Salt Palace Convention Center. To attend in
What are the Odds? (WATO) can be very helpful for those investigating genealogical mysteries such as unknown parentage. WATO is a web application released in 2018 and based on concepts developed by Leah Larkin and documented in her series Science the heck out of your DNA. In 2024, I released an overhauled version of WATO:
Inferred chromosome mapping is a fun, puzzle-like technique that I discussed in this post from 2017. This often involves using a sibling or parent test to infer additional information from DNA matches. In 2020 I launched the inferred segments generator to make this process easier. In the following guest post, Josh Hutchings demonstrates how he
It has been a busy year! Here’s a reminder of some recently released features as well as a brief look back at some fun conferences.
As genealogists, we spend a lot of our time deep in family trees. I’ve spent so much time trying to build collateral lines down to the present day that my main tree now includes more than 6,000 people! By contrast, in your ancestral tree at DNA Painter, you extract just your direct ancestors. Among other benefits, this helps you summarize your entire ancestral inheritance in a single page that can easily be searched or shared. With the goal of making ancestral trees even more useful, compact and visually engaging, I’m pleased to announce three new features.
At the top right of the Shared cM Project Tool you’ll now see a dropdown menu allowing you to switch to another language. If you’d like to help translate the tool into a different language, please get in touch.
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.