As you might have heard, AncestryDNA released a new regions update earlier this month. The most talked about feature is the ability to divide regions up by grandparent, but another key improvement is that the information in the chromosome painter is now much more refined. In this article I’ll show how you can import these segments into DNA Painter, and report back on my experience doing this.
I took a trip to Berlin last month with my brother. While the impetus for the trip was music, the city also offered a poignant glimpse into my family’s past.
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.
I’m experimenting with writing up my DNA genealogy research. This week: a new Dawson match. I feel tantalisingly close to a breakthrough!
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.
A blog post explaining how I discovered my connection to Nicholas Crispe (c.1599-1665)
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I was working on final preparations for my webinar last week when I got a shock. According to my research, I have a set of fourth-great-grandparents on my father’s grandmother’s side called John Couzens and Sarah Cutler, who married in Portsea, Hampshire, England, on October 27, 1794. But I found that there were two near-contemporaneous men called John Couzens