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Always Follow the Evidence
My uncle once told me that when you assume things, you make an ass/u/me. In the genealogy world, evidence is everything. And yet, being human, we like to draw conclusions based on the limited evidence we have. Sometimes our hunches can be right, and can draw us to find the evidence that confirms our hunch,…
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Endogamy and RootsFinder
I started using RootsFinder because someone on one of the genetic genealogy Facebook groups I’m a part of posted a link to a blog post about the new experimental DNA tool. I watched the video and I was enthralled. I loved how it would paint everything for you once you identified how your matches were related to you.…
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Triangulation, Part 2
I was asking about triangulation in the Genetic Genealogy Tips and Techniques Facebook group and I was fortunate enough to have Blaine Bettinger of The Genetic Genealogist answer my question. I’m pretty sure this is the equivalent of having Mozart answer your question about scales, and it’s probably not the first time he’s had to…
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Triangulation
This post is going to be all about triangulation: what it is, why it’s important for genetic genealogy research and how to do it properly. Confession time: I have been doing triangulation all wrong. Come and learn from my mistakes! Triangulation is like a three-legged stool that you need to sit on to do your…
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Lost on a deserted island
Working on genealogy, genetic or otherwise, is much like being lost on a deserted island. The first thing you do once you’ve got your basics covered is to move the rocks to spell HELP so that anyone flying by can see it. I’ve attracted the attention of a few people by doing this, so I’d…
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DNA in a Nutshell
What is DNA? Rather, what do you need to know about DNA to make it useful for basic genealogy research? We have 23 pairs of chromosomes, 22 pairs called autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes. For most people their sex chromosomes are XX (for those assigned female at birth) or XY (for those assigned…
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Why DNA?
DNA is pretty hot right now. All the companies are advertising it like some magic bullet, like with a swab or a tube of spit you will know who you are are where you come from. I’ve done two DNA tests, one with National Geographic (transferred to FamilyTreeDNA) and one with Ancestry, and am considering…
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What is Jennealogie?
My hobby is genealogy. I love it. I get excited talking about it, and the urge to inundate people with information about it overwhelms me so I decided I would blog about it. That way if someone wants information, I can point them here. I’m an amateur genealogist, and most of my genealogy work has…
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