Since I launched the matrix tool, there have been many great suggestions for improvements, and I’ve just released an update that includes several of these.
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An ancestral tree at DNA Painter is an interactive chart of just one person’s direct line: this person, plus all their known direct ancestors. This post describes the steps involved in creating one.
What are the Odds? (WATO) can be very helpful for those investigating genealogical mysteries such as unknown parentage.
In 2024, I released an overhauled version of WATO: WATO plus. In this short post, I’ll explain the main differences between these versions.
In this post I will explain how you can import GEDCOM and segment data into the site. As a reminder, DNA Painter does not use raw DNA data.
For this guest post, I’m pleased to welcome Jennifer Wiebe, a professional genealogist based in Montréal, Quebec. In this article, Jennifer discusses the steps involved in using WATO plus to find an unknown parent.
In case you didn’t hear, you can now see how much DNA your matches share with each other within Ancestry Pro Tools. I’ve been very patient, and this feature finally arrived for me late on the evening of June 24th, 2024.
I launched the DNA Painter blog on December 30th, 2019. The last four years have seen the release of several new tools. I’ve also been delighted to present several fascinating guest posts. Here is a recap on the ten most popular posts to date, measured by the number of page views.
The fifth post in a series aiming to surface features at DNA Painter that you might not be aware of. This time I’m focusing on different views within your chromosome map.
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DNA Painter Subscriptions
As of September 2023, it will be five years since I launched subscriptions at DNA Painter. In this article I’ll summarize why you might want to subscribe, and what you get if you do.
Today, the British testing company Living DNA announced that they’ve added a chromosome browser. In this post I’ll explain what the new feature does and give my first impressions of this first release. I’ll also explain how you can use this data in your DNA Painter chromosome map.