Last updated: March 24, 2025 Contacting your DNA matches can be like a first date. Follow these 4 “dating tips” to go from awkward to acquainted! The meatiest part of DNA test results for genealogists are the DNA matches: genetic cousins. And if your test...
Getting DNA from postage stamps, hair samples and other items is now sometimes possible. Here’s what you’ll want to know about this for your own genetic genealogy mysteries. A few years ago, I blogged about DNA to be extracted from hair samples purportedly belonging...
Organizing your DNA matches helps you make sense of them. From someone who organizes DNA results for a living, here’s the fastest, easiest way to organize them, whether you’ve tested at AncestryDNA, 23andMe or another company. When I was a kid I collected books. I...
Are you registered yet for AMSTERDAM? I’m talking about MyHeritage LIVE at the Hilton Amsterdam, Sept 6-8, 2019. Here’s what you need to know—and a coupon code for discounted registration. What I {heart} about MyHeritage LIVE The MyHeritage LIVE conference has all of...
How can you learn about Jewish ethnicity and DNA? “Jewish DNA” genetic signatures show up in DNA test results for family history: in Y DNA, mtDNA and even autosomal tests. Because Jewish people (as a whole) have been so good at obeying rather strict laws of family...
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