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Ethnicity from DNA
Using DNA testing for Genealogists
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Finding Family with your DNA Test
When great great grandaddy is not who you thought
Ancestry.com Trees
Adding to your tree from your DNA matches
Make a Text Pedigree from Ancestry Tree
Ancestry’s Potential Parent Box
Ancestry.com DNA
Make Ancestry Find the Relationship
Using Ancestry DNA Match Lists
Ancestry’s ThruLines
A ThruLines Experiment
Getting your match to respond
Using Ancestry’s DNA hints
Share AncestryDNA Results
MyHeritage DNA
MyHeritage DNA matching
MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity
23andme Basics – many posts
23andme Basics
Finding cousins at 23andme
23andme ethnicity by segment
23andme Family Tree from DNA
Family Tree DNA family finder basics
DNA Newbie FAQ
More DNA
Help for Adoptees
Adoption Success Stories
Collecting Trees with Automation
Using GWorks: comparing trees
Using just half your matches in GWorks
DNA2tree: find the Common Ancestors
Golden State Killer Methodology
Using Y DNA for unknown parentage
When the Found Father Needs Help Understanding the DNA
Clustering
Clustering via DNAgedcom
Clustering with Genetic Affairs
More clustering tools
Clustering with Tree Building at Genetic Affairs
How to tell the relationship from the shared DNA
Full Versus Half Siblings
Why Don’t We Share More DNA with a Sibling
Segment Size is Important
More AncestryDNA tips
Clicking Over from Ancestry DNA Hints
Figuring out an Ancestry cousin match
Using Ancestry DNA Match Features
Upload Ancestry DNA results to GEDmatch
Connecting Ancestry DNA Matches to your Tree
Copy Ancestry DNA data to ftDNA
Matches on the X
Contribute Your X data
Using X for paternal versus maternal
False matches
The Y chromosome
More Y posts
Canine DNA testing
DNA advanced
DNA Relationships by the Numbers
Unusual Relationships
Half Sibling or Nibling? 25% relationships
Sisters with the Same Dad Share a Full X
When the Parents are Related
Finding common ancestors with automation
GEDmatch
GEDmatch Basics
GEDmatch Beta One-to-Many
The Compact Segment Mapper
Are Your Parents Related Tool
Combining DNA kits at GEDmatch
Gedmatch Tag Groups
Using the GEDCOMs at GEDmatch
DNA Triangulation
Ashkenazi DNA
Endogamy and DNA
Lara’s Endogamy Numbers
Old GEDmatch posts
Moving from GEDmatch to GENESIS
GEDmatch Basics
GEDmatch Basics video
GEDmatch tools and column headings
GEDmatch to Master Spreadsheet
Tier1 Utilities at GEDmatch
GENESIS: the new GEDmatch
GEDmatch Privacy
Testing Pet DNA
Genealogy
Ahnentafels
Index to New York City Vital Records
How Many Ancestors?
Pedigree Collapse
Video Explaining How Many Ancestors
German Jewish Research
German Jewish Special Interest Group
The Leo Baeck Institute
Alemannia Judaica
My Grandfather’s Letter on Leaving Germany
Norwegian Genealogy
How to put Norwegian Names in your Family Tree
Norwegian Digital Archives
Dick Larkin’s Guide to Reading Norwegian Churchbooks
Finding your immigrant ancestor in Norway
Finding Matilda
online Norwegian OCR
Farm Name Lookup (O. Rhyg form)
Typing Scandinavian Characters
Converting Norwegian Dates
One World Trees
Keeping multiple trees updated
The World Trees and GEDcoms 2019
Tools
Tools I have written
Ahnen2GED, Ahnentafel to GEDcom converter
Latest version of Ahnentafel list to GEDCOM converter
CSV slicer (half the matches for GWorks)
Overlapping Segment Mapper
Ancestor Chromosome Mapper
One Chromosome Mapper
Making a matches spreadsheet
Jim Bartlett on spreadsheets
Making a CSV file
Comparing GEDcoms
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