First, a couple of news items:
- FTDNA and Othram announce partnership to develop DNA relationship and visualization tools: https://othram.com/press_release/othram-and-familytreedna-collaborate-to-bring-advanced-relationship-visualization-tools-to-genetic-genealogy
- DNA Painter blog post about 23andMe’s clustering tool, downloading the cluster info, and importing the data into DNA Painter’s Matrix tool to see at a glance how much DNA the cluster members share with each other: https://dnapainter.com/blog/23andme-clustering/
Here are links to some things discussed during the April meeting:
Ancestry’s Enhanced Shared Matching: https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/pro-tools-dna-matches
And some of the links we discussed:
- https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2016/06/19/a-triangulation-intervention/
- https://blog.familytreedna.com/family-finder-matrix-update/
- https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/fishing-in-your-match-list-with-myheritage-dna-tools/
- https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2023/03/16/the-growing-phenomenon-of-the-unlinked-family-cluster/
- https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2017/03/19/guest-post-the-mcguire-method-simplified-visual-dna-comparisons/
DNA Painter’s Matrix Tool:
- https://blog.dnapainter.com/blog/shared-dna-at-a-glance-the-new-dna-matrix-tool/
- https://blog.dnapainter.com/blog/matrix-tool-improvements/
- https://blog.dnapainter.com/blog/new-in-the-matrix-tool-enhanced-charts-sorting-and-more/
- https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/shared-dna-at-a-glance-the-new-dna-matrix-tool