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Mitochondrial DNA Results from the Big Y Test
Say what? Mitochondrial results from a Y DNA test? You must be kidding? It’s April Fool’s Day, right??? “Not funny,” you say… Keep reading:) Felix’s Thought Logs, by Felix Chandrakumar, a software...
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Big Y Chrome Extension
Now that the Big Y results have been coming in, recipients and administrators have begun looking for ways to work with the data. This is no trivial feat. We’re not looking at 111 markers, we’re...
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Population Finder Update to be Released Soon
On April 11, 2014, Family Tree DNA released information saying that the Population Finder tool will be updated soon, sometime after April 30th. I certainly welcome the news of the impending update, and...
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Family Tree DNA Releases myOrigins
On May 6th, Family Tree DNA released myOrigins as a free feature of their Family Finder autosomal DNA test. This autosomal biogeographic feature was previously called Population Finder. It has not...
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Stories about Surname Origins
How many of us have seen stories about the purported origin of our family surname? Until now, I never thought about DNA perhaps holding the answer to whether these origin stories might be accurate –...
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Ethnicity Percentages – Second Generation Report Card
Recently, Family Tree DNA introduced their new ethnicity tool, myOrigins as part of their autosomal Family Finder product. This means that all of the major players in this arena using chip based...
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Finding Native American Ethnic Results in Germanic People
I’m often asked about the significance of small percentages of autosomal DNA in results. Specifically, the small percentages are often of Native American or results that would suggest Native...
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Native American DNA Projects
I’m often asked about projects that are for or include Native American DNA results. Please note that different project administrators have different criteria for admission to a project. Some require...
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Ancestry.com Discontinues Y and mtDNA Tests and Closes Data Base
Ancestry.com has not been actively selling Y and mtDNA tests for some time now. However, today Ancestry announced the official discontinuance of those tests and that as of September 5th, their Y and...
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Bennett Greenspan – The Future of Genetic Genealogy
Bennett Greenspan, one of the founders of Family Tree DNA, spoke about “The Future of Genetic Genealogy” at the Southern California Genealogy Society conference this week. The SCGS has been gracious...
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Big Y and Family Finder Sale, Plus $100 Coupon for Big Y
Family Tree DNA almost always has a Father’s Day sale, and they have just announced this year’s sale. It’s a good one, especially if combined with a separate special $100 coupon for the Big Y test....
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Family Tree DNA Surpasses the Million Test Mark
Family Tree DNA, the genetic genealogy arm of Gene by Gene, announced today in a press release that it has processed over 1,000,000 DNA test kits results for genealogy and anthropology purposes. This...
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Ancestry Kit Mixup
Every genealogists worst nightmare. A DNA kit swap. You unknowingly receive the results from someone else, and that equally in-the-dark unknown person receives yours. And you’ll never know unless...
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10 Things to Do With Your DNAPrint, renamed AncestrybyDNA, Test
Please note, AncestrybyDNA is NOT the same as the AncestryDNA test sold by Ancestry.com. Both CeCe Moore and David Dowell have written about this in their respective blogs. Back in 2002 (no, that is...
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Tenth Annual Family Tree DNA Conference Wrapup
This slide, by Robert Baber, pretty well sums up our group obsession and what we focus on every year at the Family Tree DNA administrator’s conference in Houston, Texas. Getting to Houston, this year,...
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Family Tree DNA Holiday Sale, Including Mystery Rewards, Starts Now
Family Tree DNA’s holiday sale starts today and lasts through 11:59PM Central time, December 31st. Holiday prices are shown below and most of their products are on sale, including upgrades. But wait...
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Chromosome Browser War
There has been a lot of discussion lately, and I mean REALLY a lot, about chromosome browsers, the need or lack thereof, why, and what the information really means. For the old timers in the field, we...
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New Family Tree DNA Mystery Rewards – Week 2
The second week of Mystery Reward coupons begins today. The e-mails are arriving and the new rewards are posted on your account, right above the Family Tree symbol. So far, the coupons, from last...
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Family Tree DNA Week 3 Mystery Coupon Same as Week 2
This week’s mystery coupon seems to be the same for everyone as last week’s, but with a new coupon code and a new expiration date. Update – A few people are reporting different coupons. That’s kind of...
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All New Mystery Coupons – Week 4 Family Tree DNA Holiday Sale
Great news! All new coupons this week for everyone at Family Tree DNA, so check your mystery gift box on your personal page. Yesterday I received an e-mail from a store that says “10 days until...
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