Yeah for 23andMe! Today I had a new connection – a 2nd cousin for Kalonji’s grandmother, Frances. Frances passed away in August at 89 years old, so we are especially grateful for this new cousin. Her match wrote back to me today and told me who her grandmother was and I was quickly able to […]
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Okay – so, not a cousin of mine, but a cousin of my daughter’s. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to meet Shannon Christmas today as he was in town speaking at an event on African American genealogy at Andrew Jackson’s home, the Hermitage (you can read more about the event here). My husband,
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Last month, 23andMe announced improvements to their Ancestry features, and I can now get a more specific breakdown of my Sub-Saharan African ancestry than I was previously able. With this update, I can see that 83.4% of my DNA is mapping to West African ancestry, with another .7% Central African and 1.4% coming up as
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Yeah – Another potential family tree revelation from a 23andMe match! A few days ago, I was looking at one of my matches family trees and noticed he had the Boston surname on his tree. Boston is a surname in my family – one of my 3rd great-grandmothers was named Lovey Boston. To date, I
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a great connection I made through 23andMe with a new cousin. In that post, I talked about the match in 23andMe and why I was so excited to see her show up. This time, I’ll share what I learned about our DNA match. For some reason, when
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Tonight I was so pleased to see in my email inbox another acceptance of one of my genome sharing requests. When I logged onto 23andMe and saw the persons details, I started to get excited. I have thought of all kinds of ways to tell the story here on my blog and none of them
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Back in December, 23andMe updated the algorithms behind their Ancestry Painting feature. I posted my original results in October 2011. Thanks to a comment from a blog reader, I’m going to share my updated results. My original results had me as 84% African, 13% European and 3% Asian (likely Native-American). My new results are now 85.9% Sub-Saharan
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Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun exercise tonight is as follows: Find a living male person in your database from your maternal grandfather’s patrilineal line who could take a Y-DNA test. Then, we are tasked to answer several questions. Here are my responses – fortunately, this was a very easy topic for me given all the testing
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I have had the most fabulous few days in that I have had several cousin connections! I can’t even begin to go in-depth on all of them, but in brief: a third cousin of mine, Nafeesah, emailed me after searching online for more information about her family and finding my family genealogy site. She and
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I have a goal to do a DNA comparison test this month. There are two individuals I want to test so that I can find out if they descend from the same male ancestor – one is black (Person A) and one is white (Person B). My primary genealogical research leads me to believe there
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