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23andMe — Best Way to Download Your Ancestry Composition Data!
Ancestry Composition As you no doubt know, 23andMe‘s Ancestry Composition tool is interesting and cute but doesn’t give exact end points. There’s been some discussion on the 23andMe boards about downloading Firebug and using it to get your data. That is fine as far as it goes, but I don’t like all the other add ons that Firebug tries to get you to download so I’ve been using this method. I’m sorry I didn’t post about … Read entire article »
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Ancesty DNA – Why Low Confidence Matches Matter
Low Confidence Matches Many knowledgeable users at Ancestry.DNA continue to find the low confidence matches to be a wealth of solid cousins. So much so that sometimes most of your hints lie in those deep dark depths at the back of your DNA matches. Up until now, I haven’t put much thought into it just assuming it was the randomness of DNA. But today, I woke up with a better answer and likely the main reason … Read entire article »
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New! Two Hints at Ancestry DNA!
Almost all my matches match each other in multiple ways. But I just got a 1 of 2 hints at Ancestry where in the past I’ve always only got one.. and the furthest one at that! … Read entire article »
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Sales Sales Sales! — Ancestry, AncestryDNA, FTDNA and 23andMe
Sales! There are a lot of reduced prices available for DNA testing and Genealogy but some of them aren’t well advertised. The sale at FTDNA is theoretically over (but still advertised), while the Ancestry.com sales appear in their header and footer areas. 23andMe had an overall price drop that’s spectacular! Ancestry and AncestryDNA All sales appear to go through January 6th, 2012. 6 month Ancestry.com memberships are on sale for $49. That’s a great deal at 30% off! One year … Read entire article »
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23andMe Ancesty Composition: Homologous Chromosome Assignment Error
Homologous Chromosomes Using 23andMe’s new Composition Tool creates some challenges and this posting is an attempt to explain the issues brought up in some of their discussion posts. This is still the best Ethnicity tool out there. I applaud them for using their own customers to glean data from hard to test populations. As can be seen from the picture above, you have 2 copies of each chromosome. This is my Ancestry Composition chromosome 6. One of … Read entire article »
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The Changing Borders in Europe
23andMe and AncestryDNA Ethnicity Tools The recent admixture analysis tool at 23andMe “Ancestry Composition” and it’s counterpart at AncestryDNA the “Genetic Ethnicity Summary” has generated a lot of discussion about why none of these types of ethnicity calculation analysis seem to turn out close to correct. Here’s one reminder nipped from my Irish cousin, Gerard Corcoran’s Pinterest blog about how fluid those European country borders are. Not only can societal demarcations alter the free movement of … Read entire article »
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