What are the Odds? (WATO) can be very helpful for those investigating genealogical mysteries such as unknown parentage.
In 2024, I released an overhauled version of WATO: WATO plus. In this short post, I’ll explain the main differences between these versions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This post introduces three new improvements to the popular What are the Odds? tool: vertical display mode; improved suggested hypotheses; and ALT-drag to copy when in drag and drop mode.
I recently added focus mode, a new feature in WATO that I hope will help you.