This is going to be a long haul, this virus. Just over three months into it and already I am reduced to cursing on Facebook. The virus has me by the girl globes. I work DNA for genealogy and anthropology - who cares? We all want to know what this RNA sequence means to us. … Continue reading After I get my vaccine… 1st I want to go to Italy & hear Maurizio Marchini sing Nessun Dorma, from Puccini’s Turandot
Just because we have our "paper" well documented, does not mean we have our ancestors. DNA-for-genealogy is teaching us that many lines in even the most respectable families have had one or more "non-paternity events" (mis-attributed parentage) some time in the past. DNA testing might disprove some of our most cherished ancestral lines, but the … Continue reading OK, The DNA does not match and now you have lost 1/8th (or more) of your ancestry. ~ How To!
I will claim a cousin anyway. What can one do with their haplogroup? I am H10a1. You can go to several websites to look for your haplogroup in the skeletons of ancient people who have been sequenced! I am H10a1 and my mother's father was an R1a haplogroup, which is loosely associated with coming from … Continue reading What can one do with their haplogroup(s)? A Latvian Cousin
We are all excited to match up with our genetic cousins at the several DNA-for-genealogy-and-other-stuff companies. There are many different features at each company, but few that explain the rules of the road or help us to understand the street signs. We get exactly half of our DNA from each of our parents, but beyond … Continue reading Genetic Ancestors? Do What? We Only Get Readable DNA From Some Ancestors 😦 ~ But there is a way to ‘see’ lots more!
Oh, I could cry, I could have... a collapsing illness over the mistakes I saw in a video about two lovely doppelgangers taking DNA tests. Long story short, they look remarkably alike, which we see in genealogy all the time, but when they use DNA to answer three questions about how closely they might be … Continue reading mt-DNA ~ Pedigree Collapse AND collapse over folks mistakes in understanding DNA
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