Organize your DNA matches by linking them to your family trees on AncestryDNA and FamilyTreeDNA. Here’s how. Genetic genealogy companies are ramping up their efforts to help us integrate our genealogy with our DNA. The easier they make this for us, the easier it is...
Last updated: November 4, 2024 FamilyTreeDNA allows you to add a family tree to your DNA test. Here’s how (and why) you should add a family tree to your FamilyTreeDNA test. Editor’s note: Beginning September 9, 2024, trees at FamilyTreeDNA will be...
Family Tree DNA’s Big Y DNA test can help you distinguish fine shades of relationship on the paternal side of your family tree using YDNA. What is Big Y, and when is it worth taking? In January 2019, FamilyTreeDNA* released the latest-and-greatest version of its Big Y...
Can law enforcement access AncestryDNA, Family Tree DNA, Living DNA and MyHeritage DNA test results? Here’s where each DNA testing company stands on law enforcement matching for forensic samples. Editor’s note: This post has been updated intermittently, most recently...
Your mtDNA results are reported differently by different DNA testing companies. Why? Which results are better? As you may already know, mtDNA testing provides genetic information specific to your maternal line: your mother’s mother’s mother’s mother, etc. This can be...
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