This morning I watched the online streaming video of the Ancestry.com panel at RootsTech. The format of the panel was conversational between President & CEO Tim Sullivan and other leaders within the company. We all learned of some exciting developments in the pipeline for features to come at Ancestry.com – all of which will be […]
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Well, parts of it anyway. 🙂 This week, the 23andMe DNA Roots Into the Future results came back for one of my mother’s paternal 1st cousins. A great advantage of her having done the test is that I can now begin to establish segments of my mother’s DNA that comes from her paternal grandparents, Lewis
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Continuing my blog series on our 23andMe results, I had to share an exciting lead I have now that my mother’s results have been processed! One of my mother’s matches is a lady who we’ll call Ms. W. Ms. W has DNA similarity with my mother at 2 segments: a) On Chromosome 3 with a
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My mom and I have had a running joke since sending our DNA in for the Roots Into the Future Initiative on how it would be funny if it came back she was not our mother. Of course we know that’s not the case, but the joke was more a reflection of her awe that
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In the past few weeks, I have spent considerable time contacting DNA matches in 23andMe as first steps towards looking for verifiable connections. As I go through this process, I know there must be an easier way to leverage all the work we as individual 23andMe users are doing on the site. For my day
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On September 8th, I posted my first blog post about genetic testing results from 23andMe regarding Kalonji’s maternal haplogroup. This time, I’m posting about his paternal haplogroup. Kalonji’s paternal haplogroup is E1b1a7a. This haplogroup is subgroup of E1b1a. E1b1a has its origins in sub-saharan Africa. This of course is not surprising to us given Kalonji’s
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This blog post is going to be the start of short series of posts I will do about my husband’s 23andMe DNA testing results. We were able to get the kit for free because the company is trying to expand their database of African-American DNA. Currently, most of the health results available are based on
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On July 26th, 23andMe announced a research project called Roots Into the Future. One of my coworkers sent me the announcement and I was quite excited. The program is giving away 10,00 free DNA kits to African-Americans so that they can enhance their database. I quickly signed up and yesterday received my notice to go
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