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WATO for beginners
The What Are The Odds (WATO) (1) tool is an extension of the SharedcM (2) tool I talked about in my post Centimorgans and Segments (3). You need to have a grasp of the concept of centimorgans and the relationships that are possible based on the amount of shared centimorgans to understand why WATO is…
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Not the Mama! Inferred Chromosome Painting
I previously talked about chromosome painting (1) and how you can paint DNA matches you know to assign your DNA to your ancestors. Let’s review the basics of recombination before we jump to talking about inferred chromosome painting. My mom has two chromosomes, one from her mom and one from her dad, and those two…
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Chromosome Painting
Chromosome painting is one of those things that looks super confusing until you do it and realize it’s really not so complicated. And then you get addicted to it. I talked a little bit about chromosome painting in my post Painting Your Matches with Rootsfinder (1) but I’ve apparently never talked about Jonny Perl’s DNA…
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Unsettling
I first talked about Decolonizing Genealogy in my post Township 1, Range 4. (1) In this post I want to talk about the major obstacle we face when it comes to decolonizing: the uncomfortable feelings we have that result from confronting our privilege as settlers and colonizers. Even if this is not the first time…
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Silver Linings
In September 1912 my great-great grandmother Emma (Barton) Garner left England with her three children to join her husband Alfred in Winnipeg (1). The following January, she died of typhoid (2). Did the family know that at that time Winnipeg was the typhoid capital of the world (3)? The scourge of typhoid was instrumental in…
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Airtable for Genealogy
One of my problems with genealogy is that there is never enough time for it. If I wait until I have big blocks of time to devote to it, I will be waiting a long time. I can, however, spare small blocks of time here and there. This requires a lot more organization though, because…
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I went to GRIP!
More accurately, GRIP came to me, virtually. I mentioned the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) (1) in my post Genealogy Education and Certification (2). So when the opportunity to sign up for its virtual offerings came up, I was excited that I was able to get into a class for both the June and…
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Opting In
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time now – since April 2018, when the Golden State Killer case changed the genealogy world forever. Since then, genealogy has been combined with law enforcement efforts to find the perpetrators of violent crimes, as well as to identify unknown remains. Unidentified remains are often…
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Ça va aller
I’ve written before about what a vital force my great-grandma was (1). One of my greatest possessions is the hand-written memoir and genealogy notes she made when she was still alive. In it, she very briefly mentions major events that happened in her life: WWI, the 1919 Winnipeg Strike and the flu. “Then the 1919…
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Why I Love Scapple
Way back what feels like 3 centuries ago, I watched a webinar by Blaine Bettinger called LucidChart and Other Tools for Genetic Genealogy. He talked about a few different third party tools, some of which we might not think of when we think of genealogy, such as a charting program called LucidChart. Sometimes we need…
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