One tool helpful to members of groups that not many people may not realize is there is an Advanced Matching Tool. This tool is found on your personal page on the right side of the Family Finder Section, assuming you have taken the Family Finder. Click on Advanced Search. Choose …
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 …
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 …