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Triangulation, Part 5
I didn’t think there was anymore to say about triangulation, and then I was working on some presentations on various Gedmatch tools and noticed that there is now a triangulation tool. This tool kind of makes my original post (1) moot, but I’ll keep it up there because it’s a good explanation of what triangulation…
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Are we related?
I posted one of my blog posts to LinkedIn (1) and someone asked an interesting question that gave me pause. “What if the two people you are comparing share DNA that you are not testing? How does one know that what is tested allows one to deem common ancestry “impossible,” thereby capable of being eliminated?…
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What’s in a name … et ça se traduit?
I talked in a previous post (1) about how Familial DNA Searching is not the same as Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy (FIGG) but how they are often conflated. I posted on LinkedIn (2) about how FIGG goes by a few different names, and mentioned that it is also conflated with Forensic Genealogy. So I thought…
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Familial DNA Searching vs. Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy
I have seen these two techniques conflated in the media and even in academic papers, so I wanted to write this post to clear this up. I can see where the confusion comes from, after all, they both involve family and DNA. However, they are very different techniques and the differences are very consequential. The…
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Solving for Myself
I thought I would show people how solving for unknown DNA works by using an example. Whether it’s for cases involving adoptees, unidentified human remains (UHR) or crime scene DNA, the process is pretty much the same. With adoptees, you have the benefit of using any site for DNA, including Ancestry, but with UHRs or…
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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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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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Happy Birthday, Great-Grandma!
I was fortunate enough to know my great-grandma, who was born on this day 118 years ago today. We spent lots of time with her as children until she moved to the other side of the country, and even then she came back to visit and we vacationed there a few times. I even got…
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Happy Birthday, Bert!
When I was ordering my great-grandad’s birth record from the GRO, I noticed that it was almost his birthday! He was born 116 years ago on this day, in a place called Newton-In-Makerfield, now known as Newton-Le-Willows, at 11 Liverpool Row (1). This street was part of a housing project for the Vulcan Foundry (there’s…
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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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