by Judy G. Russell | Aug 22, 2022 | DNA |
Not in 2022, either! Let’s do it again. Chant along with The Legal Genealogist: they’re just estimates. Again: they’re just estimates. One more time: they’re just estimates. So… we all got our new admixture estimates from Ancestry, right? And most of us...
by Judy G. Russell | Jun 26, 2022 | DNA, My family |
… even when they’re frustrating The Legal Genealogist owes readers an apology. Between the June week of the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) and a hard-to-diagnose technical issue with the website, the blog has been really quiet this...
by Judy G. Russell | Jun 19, 2022 | DNA, My family |
The missing fathers on Father’s Day Like every family history researcher, The Legal Genealogist has them. Those “man holes” in the family tree. The places in the branches where a father should be. And on this Father’s Day here in the United States, taking...
by Judy G. Russell | Jun 12, 2022 | DNA, My family |
I neeeeeed this one The Legal Genealogist has determined that Francis Marion Robertson appears in dozens of family trees on Ancestry. And I Do Need A favor on this one. List him with the right parents and grandparents, wouldja? His mama, Samantha (Battles) Robertson,...
by Judy G. Russell | May 15, 2022 | DNA |
About that “closest” match… It was one of The Legal Genealogist’s goals for 2022: to identify the nearest as-yet-unidentified autosomal DNA match at each of the major testing companies. Solving the first one, at MyHeritage DNA, was easy, thanks...
by Judy G. Russell | May 8, 2022 | DNA, My family |
And five generations… It’s Mother’s Day here in the United States. It’s DNA Sunday here at The Legal Genealogist. So what else could I possibly do? Yep. Five generations of mitochondrial DNA, haplogroup H3g. Me. My mother Hazel (Cottrell)...
by Judy G. Russell | Apr 24, 2022 | DNA |
Celebrating that last eight percent… Tomorrow, April 25, 2022, is National DNA Day here in the United States. It’s a day to celebrate “the successful completion of the Human Genome Project in 2003 and the discovery of DNA’s double helix in 1953,”1...
by Judy G. Russell | Apr 17, 2022 | DNA |
P1 and P2 are not always the same! So Ancestry launched a new DNA testing feature this week that caused quite a buzz. Called SideView, it gives testers a view of what Ancestry calls “ethnicity inheritance” — the estimated portions of each geopolitical region included...
by Judy G. Russell | Apr 13, 2022 | DNA |
Parents’ admixture without parents tested NOTE as of noon EDT: The Ancestry press release says “Ethnicity inheritance, powered by SideView™ technology, is available now for all AncestryDNA customers.” Um… from what’s being said...
by Judy G. Russell | Apr 10, 2022 | DNA |
… three to go It was one of The Legal Genealogist’s goals for 2022: to identify the nearest as-yet-unidentified autosomal DNA match at each of the major testing companies. Including — at MyHeritage DNA — “match JS, a predicted 3rd – 4th cousin...