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July 4, 2015

Scandinavian Ethnicity in Great Britain and Ireland

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 …

Shared Chromosomes and Triangulation Part 1

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 …

Shared Chromosomes -Part 2 The Family

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 …

Shared Chromosomes- Part 3 My Close Family

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 …

Shared Chromosomes-Part 4 X-Chromosomes

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 …