AncestryDNA recently released a feature to your DNA match results that we call Amount of Shared DNA. It allows you to see some scientific details behind your relationship with each of your matches. You now have access to this for each of your matches. See an example below. New DNA Matching Details In this example, Read More
Passed down through the generations, fragments of the genomes of long-gone ancestors exist today in the genomes of their living descendants. Those fragments can actually be used to recover parts of those ancestors’ genomes – without having to resort to some more morbid techniques for obtaining their DNA. That means a potentially easier way for Read More
Building an Operationally Successful Component – Part 3: Robustness My previous two posts discussed building components that are “operationally successful.” To me, a component cannot be considered successful unless it actually operates as expected when released into the wild. Something that, “works on my machine,” cannot be considered a success unless it also works on Read More
When interpreting historical documents for the intent of researching your ancestors, you are often presented with less than perfect data. Many of the records that are the backbone of family history research are bureaucratic scraps of paper filled out decades ago in some government building. We should hardly be surprised when the data entered is Read More