AND even if they did get raw data - so what! What could they do with it?

#dna #announcements

Recently Ancestry announced they were going to eliminate those “small” DNA matches, less than 6 cM. This caused quite a stir in the broader genealogical community. As a result, Ancestry announced that

#dna

Thank you, Rollie. That is especially interesting because she also lived in the 17th century, and from the surname Weber I would guess it was the German-speaking part of Switzerland.

#dna

Hi, When I had friends visiting here in Israel from France and they had done tests via MyHeritage, they wanted to show me their results. They tried to enter their MyHeritage results but to no avail. W

#dna

Fascinsting! Thanks for adding your knowledge here.

#dna

mtDNA does not reflect very recent ancestry very well. So perhaps deep in your family roots you had a Sephardic maternal ancestor. In other words a common ancestor who's descendants are now both Ashke

#dna

There was a question about Ovsey name. "Ovsey" is a common Russian variant for Yehoshua

#names #dna #usa

No. It will only mean that you have a common ancestor, but it could be much farther back, perhaps over a thousand years.

#dna

Looking for my grandfather Born 1902 in Vienna Austria his name Rupert Lipot don't have birth certificate .His mother put him to hungary's border and left him their, grow up in Debrecen orphanage Anyo

#dna

GEDmatch is back up. You might want to change your password.

#dna

Dear Kenneth, There is a ready-to-hand explanation for your Italian/Greek/Ashkenazy mix. It applies to my family as well: Romitic Jews who lived for centuries in Greece. Romitic Jews migrated to Italy

#dna

There was a post on 7/15 from a person by the name of Judy Johnson 646443 regarding Greek DNA, we would like to get in touch with this person but find no link anywhere Can you please help us, guide us

#dna

When my great aunt and her first cousin wanted to marry, they had to come into New Jersey because it was illegal for first cousins to marry in Philadelphia in the1930’s. Sharon F. Yampell Voorhees, NJ

#dna

@Jeffrey Herrmann, I had to giggle a little when I read your note because I have also undergone that journey ;-) One thing is for certain: what we think we know today won't be the same as what we thin

#dna

Dear One and All: The two people mentioned in the subject line have come up as possible DNA matches to a few of us known cousins with one of the companies that test DNA. I have sent them messages thro

#dna

Thanks to those who took the time to carefully read and respond to the specific question I posed. Here is the additional bit I alluded to in my first message: Virtually none of my family on this side

#general #dna

Nancy Schlegel asked about connections to families from Tarnow. Perhaps the additional years of records of Tarnow extracted by JRI-Poland in the last month may have some clues. To learn the current st

#dna #galicia

Looking for any further info or other possible connections to the following: Recently-added Tarnow birth records on Ancestry include 3 Schwarzküchel siblings, born between 1853-1863, with parents Mose

#dna #galicia

The reason there was no immigration control in New Orleans in 1852 is that the first federal law restricting immigration was passed in 1882. Before then, immigration was left to the states. --Yale Zus

#dna

I've setup a Brainin DNA project on FTdna, if you are a Brainin or are descended from one please join. www.familytreedna.com/groups/brainin-dna I know of a few separate Brainin families who all origin

#dna