Please Note: This is Part 2 of a Two Part Post You can Read Part 1 Here: Brick Wall Broken By Shared DNA-Part 1 http://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com/brick-wall-broken-shared-dna-success-story-part-1/ While conducting one of my online searches I came across a message on Genealogy.com. John Arnold, a descendant of Willis Arnold, son …
If you have been with FTDNA for a while this message is really not for you unless you purchase a new kit. However, a few people currently have their settings set where others cannot see things when they really would prefer others could see their information. In most cases the …
Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home2/micbarn1/public_html/micsXchromosome/wp-includes/shortcodes.php on line 192 Following is from the Ancestry Blog of June 23, 2015 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry It explains a lot about why I have such a high Scandinavian ethnicity count when I can not account for more than 1 or …
The purpose of the following series, “Shared Chromosomes”, is to discuss and demonstrate how using shared matches between multiple family members can be useful in discovering on which side of one’s family, paternal or maternal, a common match resides. Once identified matches can be compared on the Chromosome Browser and …
In this part of the series I will show how a family of DNA testers can collectively give guidance as to which side of the family a match emanates. A friend and member of one of the projects I administer was kind enough to allow me to use his …
This segment of the blog will address my own matches. As stated earlier I have a total of seven siblings and other relatives grouped together. First, there is my siblings-my sister, Fran, and my brother, Cliff, plus, myself, Mic. Second, I have two 1st cousins-Cousin Peggy, a daughter of …
In Shared Chromosomes Part 2 we saw how easy it was to discover on which side of the family a match was when parents are included in DNA testing and how it is even better when grand-parents are tested. In Shared Chromosomes Part 3 we saw how testing 1st and …
Would you like to know how your Family Finder matches match you? It is simple but complicated to learn. It takes work, creativity and luck on your part and a lot of cooperation on the part of your matches. Family Finder has a place for adding one’s ancestral surnames and …
Do Full Siblings Match Ethnically? One of my students asked in a recent class if siblings were exact matches to one another in DNA tests and did they show the same ethnicity percentages in ethnicity charts and maps. The answer is unequivocally NO! To demonstrate that answer, it just so …
The following graphics demonstrate the location of Mic’s X-Chromosome cousins on the X Chromsome. The graphic is taken from the FTDNA Chromosome Browser. Because a maximum of 5 matches may be tested at a time, four groups had to be created to test all 17 matches. Each person within a …