The next DNA Sig meeting will not be until September
Next DNA Sig Meeting will be in September
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Reminders
Don’t forget, MoCoGenSo does NOT have a monthly meeting in July.
BTW, Ancestry.com is having a big “firecracker” sale (they call it a “flash” sale). You can get good prices, but only for the next 2 days! As they say, “Cheap ancestors for sale”!
Order the DNA test, order 50% off membership account, work like crazy, get addicted to genealogy, and then join us at the next DNA Sig meeting!
“Let’s put smart to work!” – IBM
Ancestry DNA Circles going going gone by July 1
We only have 4 more days to preserve their contents.
Roberta Estes of the wonderful DNAeXplained blog has reminded us that DNA Circles are soon going to be a thing of the past.
This is reminder that Ancestry is permanently removing DNA Circles from customer accounts on July 1st. If you have not recorded the information held in your Circles and New Ancestor Discoveries, if you had any, do that NOW.
Circles provide you with information about people who match you that share a common ancestor, but they ALSO show you who else has tested and matches the people you match, but not you. That’s valuable information for numerous reasons. It verifies multiple children of that ancestor genetically and provides you with a genetic network to validate the ancestral connection for all of those people..
See her full posting here: DNAeXplained
” The hard part of standing on an exponential curve is: when you look backwards, it looks flat, and when you look forward, it looks vertical. And it’s very hard to calibrate how much you are moving because it always looks the same.” – Sam Altman
number of SNPs tested by chip
I am testing the process of creating a Post here via Email. If it works well, perhaps we can get other folks to create postings too. This particular post might come or go rather quickly, so be-aware!
On a more serious note, I am going to create a table showing the number of SNPs tested by chip for the different testing companies. I was hoping to find what I wanted online somewhere, but alas, I will create one myself using these links.
ALL
https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_testing_comparison_chart
23andme
http://www.rootsandrecombinantdna.com/2018/01/23andme-chip-versions-comparison.html
https://isogg.org/wiki/23andMe#Chip_versions
AncestryDNA
https://isogg.org/wiki/AncestryDNA#Chip_versions
https://dna-explained.com/2016/10/05/ancestry-v1-vs-v2-test-comparison/
MyHeritage
https://blog.myheritage.com/2019/04/update-regarding-dna-test-processing-times/
Genographic
https://dna-explained.com/2016/10/05/ancestry-v1-vs-v2-test-comparison/
FTDNA
https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/autosomal-ancestry/universal-dna-matching/data-points/
DNA Sig for tomorrow has been cancelled!
Whoops, we just received word that the DNA Sig for June has been cancelled.
The FHC will be open at 11:00 AM, if you want to do some heavy research, say in Fold3 or Ancestry or DNA Painter. Otherwise, ya’ll can take the extra hour for some needed exercise!
Ancestry Tree Sharing Hint
The other day I tried to share my tree in Ancestry.com with another Ancestry member. I used the Ancestry user name during the Share steps and it did not work. I have shared my tree successfully in the past and so was confused about what was wrong. I sent a note to Customer Services and received a reply within a couple of hours. I decided to share the answer here in case this has stumped others in the past..
Ancestry has both usernames and display names. Some people choose to show their display name in place of a username which appears to be the case here.
In order to share your tree, you’ll need either the username or email address which she can find when she click’s her display name in upper left corner while she’s signed in and share either of those with you so that you can send the invitation.
” Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffet
End of an Era – National Genographic DNA Project is Going Bye Bye
This announcement appeared on the National Genographic website a couple of days ago.
I took my first “commercial” DNA test with the Genographic Project 1/3/2006 because I trusted National Geographic company!
A few months later I transferred my data to FTDNA and I was hooked! Now they are closing up shop. I am sad to see them go. They provided raw data downloads and correct haplogroup identifiers, and that migration path my ancestors took that I still prize. They educated lots of folks about what deoxyribonucleic acid (aka DNA) has to do with history. You could say they were pioneers in this genetic genealogy field.
You have until the end of next year 2020 to get all your data from their website.
“A question cannot be answered until it is asked, and once asked, it cannot be unasked.” – Anthony Aguirre
