A quick recap on what has been an eventful year for genealogists and those working with DNA, covering genealogy/testing company releases, artificial intelligence, and DNA Painter activities.
I had the chance to experiment with AncestryDNA Custom Clusters. In this article I talk about how it worked out for two sample brick walls.
A summary of a brick wall where DNA doesn’t currently seem to be able to help.
Read about the latest enhancements to the DNA matrix tool.
Since I launched the matrix tool, there have been many great suggestions for improvements, and I’ve just released an update that includes several of these.
I’m pleased to announce the new DNA matrix tool at DNA Painter, which lets you visualize and analyze how much DNA a group of testers share with each other.
I’m experimenting with writing up my DNA genealogy research. This week: a new Dawson match. I feel tantalisingly close to a breakthrough!
I just got back from an action-packed week in Salt Lake City, Utah, where DNA Painter was an exhibitor at the RootsTech conference.
An ancestral tree at DNA Painter is an interactive chart of just one person’s direct line: this person, plus all their known direct ancestors. This post describes the steps involved in creating one.
I’m very pleased to announce Places, a significant new feature at DNA Painter. I’ve wanted to work with maps for a long time. This is not just because they’re visually striking, but because seeing ancestral locations mapped out makes it easier to understand my tree and where I came from. My goal is to provide a birds-eye view of a person’s ancestors that’s both beautiful and informative. Places does this by making use of information in the birth place field in your ancestral tree.