by Brit Nicholson | Jan 14, 2022 | Blog, Genealogy
For decades these two lines of people’s trees were stuck in the late 18th century. With very little time spent I was able to take two lines of matrilineal ancestors back to the 17th century. I’m not normally a fan of researching my ancestors as far back as...
by Brit Nicholson | Jan 10, 2022 | Blog, DNA Science
Comparing kits to a known relative when multiple siblings have tested A year ago I wrote an article, Part 1, about the theoretical best way to use the kits of multiple siblings to help determine relationships of your DNA matches. More recently, in Part 2, I tested...
by Brit Nicholson | Jan 6, 2022 | Blog, Genealogy
Today the 1921 census of England and Wales was released. It’s the first one that includes my great-grandmother, Marie Louise Courtenay. I had already found her birth record by paging through hundreds of civil status records. I also had to find documents such as...
by Brit Nicholson | Dec 15, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
GEDmatch is providing relationship predictions on its site for the first time ever. Find out how you’re related to the matches you see without leaving the page. GEDmatch.com has just updated its site with relationship predictions. These new relationship...
by Brit Nicholson | Dec 2, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
A year ago I wrote an article about the best way, theoretically, to use DNA kits from multiple siblings. How does it hold up to testing? In Part 1 I described what you would need to do in order to use all of the information found in multiple siblings’ kits. It...
by Brit Nicholson | Nov 5, 2021 | Blog, DNA Science
A DNA tester has a few different options to see the possible relationships for their matches, including at the testing sites themselves. A new one has functionality like no other. I used to not be a fan of relationship prediction for genetic genealogy, wondering why...
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