Third Party Tools
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Ancestral Trees at DNA Painter
I’m sure most genealogists are familiar with the DNA Painter website.1 Whether it’s to use WATO to figure out an unknown parent or to do some Chromosome Mapping, this site is instrumental for anyone working with their DNA.2 Late last year I learned about another tool on the site called Ancestral Trees:3 Not only can…
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Slow is fast
“Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal (1) is one of my favourite sci-fi series. It takes place in an alternate past, where the space race becomes a matter life and death for humanity. The mantra for the astronauts is “slow is fast.” Wearing their big, bulky spacesuits in low to no gravity makes…
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Draw.io
I’ve talked about Scapple (1) and LucidChart (2) before, and now I’m going to talk about yet another charting tool, Draw.io (3). It looks a lot like LucidChart, but it’s free. You can connect it to your Google Drive account, and although I haven’t tried collaborating with anyone, given how easy it is to collaborate…
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LucidChart
I finally figured out lines in LucidChart! You’ll remember that in my post on Scapple (1) I said that I preferred Scapple to LucidChart because it was so much simpler (not to mention the one time fee vs. a subscription). However, I’ve since discovered that sometimes simpler can mean limited, and LucidChart does produce some…
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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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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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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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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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