Author: Jonny Perl

Enhanced ancestral trees: Brick Walls, Pictures and Dots

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date December 10, 2024

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.

Tools

Shared cM Project Tool now available in additional languages

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date November 20, 2024

Different language versions of the Shared cM Project tool

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.

Havant My genealogy

May 4th 1871: a family wedding

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date November 19, 2024

May 4th 1871 was a big day in my family history. In this article I analyze an old wedding photo and try to figure out who the people were.

Chromosome Mapping Opinion

Am I actually a Dutchman?

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date October 10, 2024

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.

My genealogy

Finding Nicholas Crispe

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date October 2, 2024

A blog post explaining how I discovered my connection to Nicholas Crispe (c.1599-1665)

Havant My genealogy

Which John Couzens?

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date September 27, 2024

Excerpt from Sheet 331 - Portsmouth (1 inch to the mile, [Solid with Drift]) OS surveyed: 1856 to 1866, Geological Survey published: 1893, Reprinted: 1903; Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland

I was working on final preparations for my webinar last week when I got a shock. According to my research, I have a set of fourth-great-grandparents on my father’s grandmother’s side called John Couzens and Sarah Cutler, who married in Portsea, Hampshire, England, on October 27, 1794. But I found that there were two near-contemporaneous men called John Couzens

Chromosome Mapping Did you know? Tips Trees WATO

You can import GEDCOM and segment data: did you know? #6

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date September 26, 2024

Did you know? You can import GEDCOM and segment data

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.

Chromosome Mapping New Features

New: Showcase your roots with Y & mtDNA in your chromosome map

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date August 30, 2024

Y and Mitochondrial DNA in your chromosome map

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.

Book reviews

The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA by Roberta Estes

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date July 30, 2024

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.

Opinion Tips

Ancestry Pro Tools matches of matches: my experience so far

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date June 26, 2024

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.