I just got back from an action-packed week in Salt Lake City, Utah, where DNA Painter was an exhibitor at the RootsTech conference.
Author: Jonny Perl
An ancestral tree at DNA Painter is an interactive chart of just one person’s direct line: Here are the steps involved in creating one. Before you start, you’ll need to have registered for a free DNA Painter account. I have a separate guide confirming how to to do that. Step 1: Log in Go to
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.
This year’s RootsTech conference is in March. DNA Painter will be exhibiting for the sixth time (and the fifth time in person). You can read about previous visits in my blog post from last year. RootsTech In-person in Salt Lake City, Utah The event is held at the Salt Palace Convention Center. To attend in
What are the Odds? (WATO) can be very helpful for those investigating genealogical mysteries such as unknown parentage. WATO is a web application released in 2018 and based on concepts developed by Leah Larkin and documented in her series Science the heck out of your DNA. In 2024, I released an overhauled version of WATO:
It has been a busy year! Here’s a reminder of some recently released features as well as a brief look back at some fun conferences.
As genealogists, we spend a lot of our time deep in family trees. I’ve spent so much time trying to build collateral lines down to the present day that my main tree now includes more than 6,000 people! By contrast, in your ancestral tree at DNA Painter, you extract just your direct ancestors. Among other benefits, this helps you summarize your entire ancestral inheritance in a single page that can easily be searched or shared. With the goal of making ancestral trees even more useful, compact and visually engaging, I’m pleased to announce three new features.
At the top right of the Shared cM Project Tool you’ll now see a dropdown menu allowing you to switch to another language. If you’d like to help translate the tool into a different language, please get in touch.
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May 4th 1871: a family wedding
May 4th 1871 was a big day in my family history. In this article I analyze an old wedding photo and try to figure out who the people were.
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Am I actually a Dutchman?
AncestryDNA have just launched their latest ancestral populations update. One of the changes I can see is that I’m now considered to be 7% Dutch. I could just smile about this and ponder whether it influenced me moving to Amsterdam as young man. But since AncestryDNA have also updated their Chromosome Painter, I can also analyze it in a bit more detail.