MarieB's Genealogy Blog--Southeastern USA

  Ancestry Composition Chromosome Painting at 23andMe for my DNA Test FamilyTreeDNA's Chromosome Painter for my test Which was an Upload...

I'm probably in the minority, but I've been looking forward to the purge.  I have felt it will make it much easier to work with the ...

 Today I worked with my Thruline™ of Jacob Sutton.  I looked at the DNA matches and noted the names of the ones which had known Sutton cou...

I was reviewing one of my blog posts from last year--  DNA Randomness: Siblings  and noticed I had included some stats for our AncestryDNA m...

I did an inventory of my top matches at AncestryDNA just to see how many of my matches who are listed in the groupings as 2nd cousins or 3rd...

I use my Real Name(Member Name) on my account as my Display name.  I've been working with shared matches and have found that you cannot...

In last Wednesday's blog post I asked if anyone wanted to take a guess at how many shared cMs a cousin match at AncestryDNA was estimat...

FTDNA launched MyOrigins 2.0 today.  Mine results are shown below along with my ethnicity reports according to DNALand, and AncestryDNA.  My...

At RootsTech 2017 Tim Sullivan, CEO and president of Ancestry announced that Ancestry would be rolling out a new tool in March for those wh...

My sister and I have both tested at AncestryDNA.  When I am working on a segment and it is pointing in the direction of a specific ancestor,...

I was extremely happy to get 14 new 4th cousins or closer matches on my AncestryDNA results overnight.  I wish people understood the import...

For those that have taken the atDNA test at Ancestry.com and not gotten any Circles or maybe you have Circles but none for the ancestor you ...

I have began working thru the probate records of my Paternal Grandfather's Ogilvie and Harris lines which come together at my 5th Great ...

I've found it useful to send share links to some of my closer matches so they can see who matches my test. The top question after I do t...

Downloading Your Raw DNA Data AncestryDNA ---- FTDNA ---- MyHeritage ---- 23andMe If you have taken an Autosomal DNA test PLEASE ...

This week I was contacted by a DNA match. She went on to tell me that her file was at GEDmatch and that we had in the range of a 4.7 genera...

This post is about how I am using the info in my AncestryDNA circle to choose which members in the circle would be most beneficial to ask t...

After 2+ weeks without matches to my AncestryDNA kits and waiting on my sister's kit to finish processing the results are in.  As I logg...