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DNA Testing companies provide you with your matches and quantify how closely you match each person by giving you a total value in centimorgans (cM). In addition, companies other than Ancestry DNA also provide you with all your individual segment matches and tell you the centimorgans of every segment. For each ...

Visual Phasing is a technique to assign DNA segments of 3 siblings to their four grandparents. I don’t happen to have 3 siblings who all tested their DNA, so up to now, I’ve never had a personal use for the technique. A few months ago for a DNA study we are doing, my wife’s 3rd cousin Terry was kind ...

I’ve released version 5.0 of  Double Match Triangulator (DMT), a tool to help you analyze your autosomal segment matches and help you determine how you might be related to your DNA matches. Six Months of Analysis Over the winter and spring, I was working hard on on a project with Terry, my wife’s ...

A few questions that plague me. …Why Some Genealogists Keep Their Main Tree Private Isn’t the purpose of genealogy to preserve and share the history and stories of your ancestors and their families? So what then is the purpose in a genealogist designating their main tree as private and preventing ...

About 4 years ago, I selected @MyHeritage as my platform to record my genealogical information. I liked MyHeritage best for several reasons. Their customers and datasets were less USA-centric than Ancestry’s, and that fit right into my Eastern European origins. Their free Family Tree Builder program ...

Among that family materials I’ve been going through was a photocopied Memorial Book for the town of Mezhiritch in the Ukraine. My mother received this pile of paper from her cousin many years ago. The Memorial Book was printed in Israel in 1955 and it is 442 pages.. So I have it on about 250 sheets of paper. ...