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Why I Disagree with Uploading DNA Results to Other Companies - February 25, 2021

Why I Disagree with Uploading DNA Results to Other Companies – February 25, 2021

I covered this topic before several times, including Why I Always Test Directly with Each DNA Company – DNA Saturdays February 6, 2021, ISOGG Autosomal SNP Comparison Chart – DNA Saturdays December 26, 2020, among other posts. Yet, I continue to see people in social media groups encouraging others to upload to MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTree DNA (FTDNA), LivingDNA. Here’s the amount of shared SNPs…

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Why I Always Test Directly with Each DNA Company - DNA Saturdays February 6, 2021

Why I Always Test Directly with Each DNA Company – DNA Saturdays February 6, 2021

I used to upload DNA tests to some sites – FamilyTree DNA (FTDNA), MyHeritageDNA, and LivingDNA. One thing I noticed is the problem with going that route – ISOGG Autosomal SNP Comparison Chart – DNA Saturdays December 26, 2020. Specifically, the ISOGG Autosomal SNP Comparison Chart: https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_SNP_comparison_chart. The wide variation in matching SNPs can be very large. I…

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Seeing Lot of NPEs Showing Up - DNA Saturdays January 23, 2021

Seeing Lot of NPEs Showing Up – DNA Saturdays January 23, 2021

I am seeing a lot of Not-the-Parent(s) Expected (NPEs) showing up. It’s becoming common as people who thought they could hide the secret before DNA testing became so cheap. While donors were promised anonymity in the 1970s and 1980s, it no longer applies. These days a second or third cousin can reveal an NPE. In addition a sibling may show as not being a full sibling. A parent may not show as…

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TribeCode - DNA Saturdays September 5, 2020

TribeCode – DNA Saturdays September 5, 2020

I think TribeCode: https://www.tribecode.com/ had great potential as a DNA company, but they blew it early on. The tests are done by TeloYears: https://www.teloyears.com/home/. They offer several testing choices – Health Only ($89.00 or $99.00 regular price), Advanced Ancestry ($89.00 or $99.00 regular price), TeloYears + Ancestry (regular price $199.00, but on sale for $149.00). TribeCode is…

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Some of the Disadvantages of GEDmatch - August 16, 2020

Some of the Disadvantages of GEDmatch – August 16, 2020

In a social media group, I saw an admin post there were no cons to using GEDmatch. This admin has a know everything attitude. Contradict them in a group they admin or are a moderator, you get booted from the group. I chose to not say anything as I can think of several cons with GEDmatch.

To me, one of the biggest disadvantages with GEDmatch is comparing DNA samples from different DNAcompanies. If…

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LivingDNA Relative Update May 24, 2020

LivingDNA Relative Update May 24, 2020

It’s been a long time coming, but LivingDNA has done a major update to relative matching. I had very few relatives listed on LivingDNA before today. I now have 662 matches (30/page), mostly in the U. S., but a few in Canada or the U. K.

The options with LivingDNA is to either transfer results from another company – 23andMe, AncestryDNA, FamilyTree DNA (FTDNA), MyHeritageDNA, etc. or to test…

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Comparison Between Me and My Two Nieces - AncestryDNA October 21, 2019

Comparison Between Me and My Two Nieces – AncestryDNA October 21, 2019

Today, I looked at my AncestryDNA results with my two closest matches – my sister’s two daughters. I hadn’t compared the amount of shared DNA between us before today when I was looking to see if there were new close matches on AncestryDNA.

Shared DNA between me, niece 1 (the older sister), and niece 2 (the younger sister).

Niece 1: 1,742 centimorgans shared across 62 DNA segments

Niece 2: 1,603…

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Y-DNA Data Warehouse - New Resource October 20, 2019

Y-DNA Data Warehouse – New Resource October 20, 2019

Thank you to ISOGG for mentioning this resource in their Facebook group – Y-DNA Data Warehouse https://ydna-warehouse.org/. It was in reference to Genetic Genealogy Ireland 2019 that was this week-end. I think he mentioned it in his Big Y-700 presentation although I haven’t seen it. I hope they add the  presentations on YouTube, probably https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnW2NAfPIA2KUipZ_PlUlw,at…

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