DNAeXplained – Genetic Genealogy

14 min read 2021-07-23 08:46:30

What’s the Difference Between Pedigree Collapse and Endogamy?

There has been recent discussion and confusion about the difference between pedigree collapse and endogamy. Let’s take a look at the similarities

8 min read 2021-07-14 01:58:32

A very unusual and alarming thing happened yesterday. Remember, my original career was in technology. I’m very sensitive about online privacy,

9 min read 2021-07-13 02:05:41

Anyone with Acadian ancestors knows that the Acadian families were forcibly deported from Nova Scotia beginning in 1755 by the English military in

8 min read 2021-07-11 03:16:56

Happy Blogiversary! Yes, blogiversary is actually a real word for a blog’s birthday. It’s DNAeXplained’s 9th birthday and I nearly forgot. How

2 min read 2021-07-08 00:31:40

Today, RootsTech announced that the 2022 RootsTech Connect conference will be held March 3-5, 2022, and will be fully virtual and free for

93 min read 2021-07-04 10:16:55

I didn’t know much about my great-grandmother, Nora Kirsch when I was growing up, or when I first started researching my genealogy. She passed away

27 min read 2021-07-02 02:05:39

The brand-new FamilyTreeDNA website is live! I’m very pleased with the investment that FamilyTreeDNA has made in their genealogy platform and

4 min read 2021-06-30 08:18:22

This should be subtitled “Confessions of a Squeaky Wheel.” Yes, I’ve been incessantly squeaky for a long time now, and it looks for all the

2 min read 2021-06-26 02:14:43

The Genealogy Show is taking place this week, today and tomorrow, with lots of speakers from around the world. You can register, here. While this

17 min read 2021-06-20 10:21:08

It looks like we are, hopefully, emerging from this miserable pandemic and it’s great to see people going about their lives, joyfully. Almost like

17 min read 2021-06-20 10:21:08

It looks like we are, hopefully, emerging from this miserable pandemic and it’s great to see people going about their lives, joyfully. Almost like

12 min read 2021-06-19 08:37:22

About 15 years ago, Bennett Greenspan, founder of FamilyTreeDNA, at one of the early conferences said that about 30% of men who take a Y DNA test

5 min read 2021-06-12 05:33:03

Public Service Announcement – Ancestry has been a bit glitchy for a few days/weeks and remains so. All vendors have issues from time to time, and

11 min read 2021-06-11 00:08:33

Most people have never heard of a heteroplasmy – but you might have one. You Might Have a Heteroplasmy If… …You have no exact matches at the

14 min read 2021-06-06 07:43:31

Seriously – only me. This would only happen to me. And I thought three Michael Kirsch’s living in the same village were bad. We’ve been