https://www.facebook.com/groups/ancestryforall I have been filling in some of my 4th to 6th cousin DNA matches in my tree. I find the common ancestors, then fill in the generations down to the match. The reason I do this is more matches come often where one DNA test exist. New matches often come from people nearby. 40-50%
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You might find a protractor to measure the angles and the percentages of the whole circle. 360 degrees is 100% of the DNA. So a section that is 36 degrees would be 10% Most of the time these “pie charts” are supposed to be label with the percentage. Forcing poor humans like us to mentally
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Debra, I read your message again. Yes join the group on GedMatch and learn what it can do. But it is only about 2 Million Tests, so do not expect magic solutions. Ancestry DNA Painter https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Chromosome-Painter?language=en_US DNA Painter Example on DNAPainter.com https://dnapainter.com/example Adding 23andMe Data to DNA Painter https://www.familysearch.org/to/rootstech/session/adding-23andme-data-to-dna-painter Ancestry Pro Tools matches of matches:
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I know what back pain feels like for extended periods, so I have a bit of understanding and empathy for your pain. Physical therapy is a good idea. Yes, you can share your DNA results with others. I have helped about 200 others with their DNA, for adoptions. missing parents, brick walls and just to
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You are working with people who are already likely to have NPEs. You can look at birth statistics for children where no father is listed. In Texas that is about 2%. I calculated the number of official adoptions and that is about 1% but it varies by group. When I tell people, I usually say
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Debra, I have not received the DNA invitation yet. I looked at the tree. My immediate reactions are (1) Mexico, not a lot of DNA matches, (2) not a lot of trees filled in deep enough (3) lots of people not knowing their families (4) requires extensive international account research. (5) many people with no
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Hi Laura, Questions for your Angels: What would you consider the most time consuming but necessary part of finding birth parents with DNA? I am particularly interested in what you say about using Ancestry DNA. What DNA and online tools “work” best? Are you using AI tools yet to build the pedigrees, find and connect
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My daughter and I were talking about plant DNA. A couple of years ago I bought her a full genome test for $300 just to see what her full genome looked like. I could not make sense of the plant genome testing industry and services. If you have a couple of minutes can you point
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Christine, I am happy it was helpful. This year I finally gave up DNA genealogy. I built or helped build full pedigrees for many people, about 160 DNA tests. Of those more than 100 adoptions, missing parents, missing fathers, “tree does not match DNA”. But I just got worn out. It is not hard to
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Gresham College: Gresham Meggett Oral History Project Kick-Off Meeting at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Ii8Iwc-As This would be much better and more accessible if there were English captions and transcript. The auto translations to other languages is something that Google/YouTube does pretty well. Desegregation and oral history are global cross-cutting issues of interest to most cultures. But (oral history
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