Intermediate Skills
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Clustering at Genetic Affairs
Clustering is all the rage! It all began with the Leeds method, a way to manually cluster your matches using the shared matches functions. It involves making a spreadsheet and colour coding your DNA matches until you have groups of matches. If you’re lucky, you end up with 4 distinct groupings, one for each grandparent.…
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Triangulation, Part 4: Pileups
As I mentioned in this post, I have a funny problem on Chromosome 10. I have been working on this particular segment on this chromosome for a long time now. Here you can see the green of my great-aunt, and the other colours interrupting it. I’m guessing a piece of my grandma’s DNA inserted itself…
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Triangulation, Part 3
I have been thinking a lot about triangulation since MyHeritage upgraded their chromosome browser (you can read about that here). People have been posting about their experiences using it in some of the genealogy Facebook groups I’m a part of. The first thing I realized is that many people don’t understand triangulation (heck, I didn’t…
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Painting your matches with RootsFinder
I’m having a lot of fun exploring with Rootsfinder, but I’m waiting for when I’ve got more time and it’s got more updates (I’d really like a search function in the cluster graph) to really get into it. Since the experimental DNA tool is rather new, I’d like to explain a little bit about one…
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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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