Category: Trees

Enhanced ancestral trees: Brick Walls, Pictures and Dots

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date December 10, 2024

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.

You can import GEDCOM and segment data: did you know? #6

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date September 26, 2024

Did you know? You can import GEDCOM and segment data

In this post I will explain how you can import GEDCOM and segment data into the site. As a reminder, DNA Painter does not use raw DNA data.

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Keeping track of genetic ancestors: did you know? #2

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date March 27, 2023

Did you know? In your tree, you can keep track of the ancestors you've verified with DNA

Within your ancestral tree at DNA Painter, ‘Show genetic ancestors’ will highlight those ancestors you’ve marked in this way. In this short article, I’ll discuss what ‘genetic ancestors’ are and explain how you can track them in your tree.

Chromosome Mapping New Features Trees WATO

New features for maps, trees and WATO at DNA Painter

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date February 28, 2022

Here’s a summary of new features at DNA Painter that I’ve released in the last couple of weeks.

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DNA Painter Dimensions: a new way to showcase your ancestral line

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date April 13, 2021

I am pleased to announce the launch of dimensions, a new feature within ancestral trees at DNA Painter. Ancestral trees allow you to extract and visualise your direct line in a tree, fan chart and text pedigree, all within one searchable page.

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My WikiTree collaborative family tree challenge

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date March 15, 2021

WikiTree is a collaborative family tree. I was honoured to be featured in the WikiTree challenge in January. As well as being fascinating, this experience has helped me to recalibrate how I plan to document future research.

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Bringing Y, mt and mitoYDNA into DNA Painter trees

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date March 18, 2020

A quick post to announce two updates to DNA Painter trees. These include mitoYDNA.org integration and the ability to view your tree with additional display options. Display options Under the settings cog/gear on the right there are now a number of display options. These give you the ability to view additional information within the tree

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Eight ways you can use ancestral trees at DNA Painter

Post author By Jonny Perl
Post date March 11, 2020

DNA Painter is known for chromosome mapping, but also includes ancestral trees, a useful interface for visualizing your family line (aka pedigree). To create your ancestral tree, you can select your GEDCOM file and have DNA Painter extract your direct line. Or if you prefer, you can enter it manually. Trees are private by default