Here are some links to thinks we talked about this month.
Blaine Bettinger’s “A Triangulation Intervention” blog post which talks about the different reasons matches will appear on a shared matches list: https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2016/06/19/a-triangulation-intervention/
Paula Williams’s “Solving a Virginia Mystery Using DNA” webinar which spends more time on the identification of William Johnson’s grandparents using DNA and dots: https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/solving-a-virginia-mystery-using-dna/
Diahan Southard’s “Shared DNA Matches – the only DNA Tool You will Ever Need” talk from RootsTech 2023 talking about filing matches into groups vs. filtering: https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/session/shared-dna-matches-the-only-dna-tool-you-will-ever-need
Blaine Bettinger video about sub-clustering shared matches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ApidzEyA_k
Ancestry Custom Clusters:
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Custom-Match-Clusters
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Science-of-Matches-by-Cluster
https://www.ancestry.com/c/ancestry-blog/dna/using-custom-clusters-to-find-dna-matches
Family Locket “How to Use AncestryDNA Custom Clusters in Your Research” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDxxR3GUntE
Also, Angie Bush is doing a live and on demand workshop for NGS with recordings available through October: https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/gentechtoolbox/ancestrydna-custom-clusters/
MyHeritage Auto Clusters and Labeling:
https://education.myheritage.com/article/autoclusters-for-dna-matches/
https://education.myheritage.com/article/how-to-use-labels-to-break-new-ground-with-your-dna-matches/
23andMe’s clustering tool: https://www.reddit.com/r/23andme/comments/1qidii0/new_beta_feature_dna_relatives_clustering/
Roberta Estes’s post about Genetic Affairs and FTDNA: https://dna-explained.com/2026/02/10/autokinship-by-genetic-affairs-builds-family-trees-from-your-matches-at-familytreedna-and-more/