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A DNA Update: 15 Years Later

Recently, I decided to upgrade my 23andme test after having left it to the wayside for so many years (it was previously on the V2 chip). It is not that I did not care about my results, it just that for so long I focused on adding other family members to my list that I …

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Genetic Connections to Guadeloupe

Connecting to DNA Cousins from Guadeloupe [Google Maps]  DNA testing is something I initiated about 10 years ago, and I was fortunate to have stumbled upon it when I did. With testing, I have been able to make great discoveries – some of them thanks to the DNA itself and others to the people I …

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A Puerto Rican look at: FtDNA’s myOrigins

FtDNA myOrigins [FtDNA Email] Recently I received an email about the release of FtDNA’s myOrigins; this would replace the old version of the calculations given for ancestry breakdowns. I was pretty excited about this upgrade because it would add another view of my ancestral breakdown by another company. Currently I have 23andme’s Ancestry Compositon as …

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A Puerto Rican look at: AncestryDNA 2.0 (African Portion)

This week something awesome happened- Ancestry.com updated their DNA part of the website and added more ethnicity groups! More importantly, they now break down Africa into various sections which is amazing since this is the first time (to my knowledge) that a company has broken down the Autosomal DNA by African countries. Part of the …

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A Year in Review: 2012

Since I wrote about my 2013 New Year Resolutions I decided to review 2012 and all of the genealogical achievements, discoveries and even unanswered questions that came with that year. That way I’ll have a summed up version of all the posts of that year and can aspire to learn even more about myself, my …

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