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Linking GEDmatch and FTDNA – AutoLineage for iGG
AutoLineage is a powerful tool that allows you to cluster your matches at a particular testing site but also to find common ancestors across multiple sites. In this blog, we will discuss a scenario when only data from FamilyTreeDNA (FTDNA) and GEDmatch can be used as sources, for instance for an investigative genetic genealogy search.…
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AutoLineage
AutoLineage is the latest tool to be added to Genetic Affairs. It contains a number of the other tools, such as AutoClustering of DNA matches at any site. But the big new feature with AutoLineage is the ability to find most recent common ancestors (MRCA) for trees that you have added. These trees can be…
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RootsTech Week 2024
I arrived in Salt Lake City Saturday 24 February. Arriving on Saturday is convenient as it gives me Sunday to sleep in and get organized for the week. Leisa Byrne had already arrived, and we recreated some of the things we’d done before RootsTech in 2020, starting off with brunch at Eva’s Bakery. Then we…
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Week 8 is Heirlooms
I have several of them from my ancestors. My paternal grandmother’s ring, and my maternal grandmother’s dessert plates. I also have several from my great grandmother. Her ‘Rebecca at the Well’ tea pot, and her cookie cutters. But the one that I use the most is her Springerle board. I do not know if she…
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks
Week 6 – Earning a Living My grandfather, Tony Sauerwald, was an artist. Born Franz Georg Emil August Anton Sauerwald on 2 February 1873 in Wetzlar, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Hesse, Germany, he was the oldest child of Emil and Eva Sauerwald. In the summer of 1883, his father left for the United States and found work in…
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LivingDNA Chromosome Browser
The big news is that LIvingDNA finally has a chromosome browser. I’ve been waiting for this ever since we uploaded our DNA. You can see which segment on which chromosome you and your match share, but there’s no easy way to download the information. You can write it on paper and then copy to Excel…
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Using MyHeritage Theories of Family Relativity
Recently MyHeritage announced some new, additional Theories of Family Relativity. Theories are similar to Through Lines on Ancestry, but they show all the pieces of the different trees that are used for the Theory. In a way that makes it a bit like a Quick & Dirty (Q&D) tree, only I didn’t have to make…
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AutoSegment ICW Enhancement – Find Segments Linked to Opposite Parent Sides
Recently the AutoSegment ICW tool on Genetic Affairs for 23andMe and FamilyTreeDNA profiles has received significant enhancements. In short, if the DNA matches linked to overlapping segments are not shared matches (for FTDNA) or do not triangulate (for 23andme), it can be presumed that these segments are related on opposite parent sides. An AutoSegment analysis…
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A Week in Salt Lake City – Family Search Library and RootsTech 2023
Recently a friend told me about Landline buses that go from Duluth airport to Minneapolis airport. It would take about three and half hours for the trip, but it also would save a good bit over the cost of airfare from Duluth to Minneapolis. I decided to try it out for my 25 February trip…
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