RootsFinder
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I got my DNA tested, now what?
I’ve organized this post so that it goes from the very basics to things that require more advanced skills. Once you’ve mastered the earlier stuff you should be ready to move onto the more difficult stuff. Try Lost Cousins’ Masterclass. While you’re there, if you have ancestors on the 1880 UK, Canadian or American census,…
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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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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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