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There are times when I think I don’t have a tree for a certain DNA match and will add one, only to discover that there was already a tree there. Especially if the tree was added automatically, and I can see how to add another generation or so to it.…
David Coleman, my husband’s third great grandfather, was born about 1801 somewhere in Ireland. This information comes from the 1850 Federal Census — the only record we have includes these details about him. He married Catherine, likely in Ireland, though her maiden name is unknown. By 1820 they were in…
Great news for AutoLineage users! You no longer have to use “Save Page As” to import your Ancestry matches and shared matches—there’s a faster way with simple copy and paste. Instead of saving files to your computer, you can now copy your match or shared match page in Ancestry and…
A new import tool has recently been added to AutoLineage, enabling the use of GEDmatch Tier 1 data. This powerful addition allows users to identify potential common ancestors based on tree data linked to up to 7,500 matches. Unlike existing tools (even the ones on GEDmatch) that typically only analyze…
Often your research is focused on a specific part of your family line. This was the case with Mary who wanted to explain her father’s Collins line. Where had the Collins family lived in Ireland? When did the immigrate to the United States? And could we find more cousins on…
If you have been collecting your Pro Tools shared matches for AutoLineage, you know it can take a bit of time. I’ve found another shortcut to speed up this collection. First I check if the match has a tree and look at the tree. If it’s only a few people…
Genetic Affairs has unveiled a powerful new feature in AutoLineage—now you can apply AutoKinship to each individual cluster generated from Ancestry ProTools shared matches, unlocking a whole new level of insight into your family connections! It invokes the functionality of AutoKinship on the site directly at no additional cost, to…
I like to have pretty trees when I run ‘Find Common Ancestors’ on AutoLineage. But sometimes they turn out very messy. This blog will describe why that happens and how to fix it. The most common occurrence is when a match has more than one tree. I know that my…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The AutoKinship tool was introduced on GEDmatch about a year ago. Developed by Evert-Jan Blom, AutoKinship is able to reconstruct trees based on shared DNA between shared matches. Genetic Affairs has AutoKinship for 23andMe data., as well as manual AutoKinship. Manual AutoKinship can be performed for any site that allows you…
This year RootsTech will again be virtual and free! And it’s less than a week away!! You can register for RootsTech here. This year the conference is Thursday, 3 March through Saturday, 5 March. The Expo will open at 8 AM MST with the Expo Party! The first keynote speaker…
The newest feature on Genetic Affairs website is AutoKinship. The most amazing thing about AutoKinship is that it generates a tree using only your DNA matches and the shared DNA between your matches. It doesn’t require you or any of your matches to have a tree. On the Genetic Affairs…
The other day several of us where having a discussion about AutoCluster, which employs In Common With (ICW) matches, and AutoSegment cluster, which employs overlapping segments and triangulated segment. Triangulated segments, where you and some of your matches share the same segment on the same location of a particular chromosome,…
GEDmatch now offers the improved AutoClustering tools that will generate AutoTrees from the gedcoms of DNA matches, and if there are high enough DNA matches with extensive trees, additional trees might be generated by AutoPedigree. All of these new features were developed in collaboration with Evert-Jan Blom of Genetic Affairs…
For over two years Genetic Affairs has provided the AutoCluster reports in the HTML format. For some of these reports, it would be interesting to extract the DNA match information as well as the shared matches. This information could provide a head start for people that would like to run…
A year ago I was in Salt Lake City researching in the Family History Library and getting ready for RootsTech to start. I was very fortunate to be able to attend RootsTech for the first time. One of the highlights was getting to meet Leisa Byrne and Jonny Perl…
I’ve been wanting to do a comparison between the In Common With (ICW) clusters and AutoSegment clusters ever since AutoSegment came out. So today I finally did that! The ICW clusters are the ones that have been available either on the site, such as MyHeritage or GEDmatch, or can be…
An exciting addition to Genetic Affairs is Hybrid AutoSegment Clusters! Now you can run the AutoSegment clusters with data from 23andMe, FTDNA, MyHeritage and GEDmatch or any combination of these sites all into one cluster analysis. The entry page is shown in figure 1. Starting at the top of the…
There’s an enhancement to the GEDmatch AutoSegment clustering on Genetic Affairs. Now the GEDmatch option includes using the triangulated data as well as the all segment data, both of which are available on Tier 1 of GEDmatch. There are a number of settings for the GEDmatch DNA Segment Search. I…
There’s a new feature at Genetic Affairs – AutoSegment Analysis. Unlike In Common With (ICW) analysis AutoSegment looks at the DNA segments for the analysis. ICW looks at your match list and forms clusters based on shared matches and groups these matches based on them matching the others in the…
There is an exciting new feature on Genetic Affairs – AutoFastCluster!! You begin by entering your DNA matches and shared matches into the spreadsheet that’s now found inside Genetic Affairs. Figure 1 shows the new spreadsheet in Genetic Affairs. You enter the data into the online spreadsheet, select the cM…
When I recently noticed that I had some matches at LivingDNA I did a Leeds1 analysis to analyze my shared matches to identify clusters. Now Genetic Affairs has a manual AutoCluster for LivingDNA that I can run using the CSV file that I made in my spreadsheet for my Leeds analysis.…
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