by Jennifer Zinck | 11 November 2017 | Conferences, DNA, General, Genetic Genealogy
As always, these are my rough notes. Please let me know if you find any typos or corrections. Permission for photos and publication of my notes was requested from and granted by all of today’s speakers. Enjoy! Max and Bennett welcomed attendees to the...
by Jennifer Zinck | 12 January 2017 | Cousins, DNA, General, Genetic Genealogy
Each week I get requests from DNA matches that say things like, “Hi! You’re a DNA match to me and I’d love to know how we’re related.” I always look forward to new connections and I’d like to make it easier for us to connect. Here are a few suggestions to help you...
by Jennifer Zinck | 13 November 2016 | General
Katherine Borges opened the ISOGG meeting and gave a brief history of how ISOGG began. ISOGG received two awards this year. One is for the ISOGG wiki, founded by Debbie Kennett, CeCe Moore, and Tom Hutchinson. There is also an ISOGG DNA Project Admins Yahoo group....
by Jennifer Zinck | 12 November 2016 | General
Note: It’s been a long day but here are my notes. As always, they are fairly raw so please excuse typos, errors, and omissions. These are essentially my 16 pages of personal notes for the day and I’m sharing them with you. I have some more photos but they...
by Jennifer Zinck | 02 August 2016 | DNA, General, Genetic Genealogy
Ancestry has rolled out a trial tool to approximately 10% of its customers. I know this makes the other 90% of us impatient but let’s hope that good things come to those who wait. This tool seems to be worth waiting for. The aim is to integrate DNA features into...
by Jennifer Zinck | 07 July 2016 | DNA, General, Genetic Genealogy
Circles vs. triangulation has been a hot topic for the past couple of days so I thought I’d throw in my two cents. I rarely use a chromosome browser to solve adoption cases. However, there are definite occasions when a hypothesis needs further investigation and...
