Introducing Sibling Lotto!

A new visualization tool helps people understand the ways that full-siblings can share DNA as well as average sharing percentages Yesterday a new tool was released that will help a lot of beginners and veteran genetic genealogists alike. These visualizations show in...

Double Cousin Relationship Predictions from Ped-sim

Double cousin predictions are now updated with many more relationship types and a peer-reviewed data source Update, 3 Feb. 2023: You can now get relationship predictions from number of segments and total cMs. This tool often tells you the exact relationship for close...

Relationship Predictions from Ped-sim

Introducing the first relationship predictions to come from a peer-reviewed data source Two new relationship predictors are now available, one with population weights and one without weights. The data came from Ped-sim. This is the future of relationship prediction....

Musings on the D in BMD

I’ve been researching my family tree for seven years now. I admit that that isn’t very far back—I haven’t even gotten to my own birth yet. My genealogical origin story is called The Missing Chevalier. The commencement of the very rigid journey was...