In honor of Father’s Day, we talked about the men who contributed to our DNA, and how using Y-DNA can help with some of our genealogical puzzles.
Here are some helpful links for both news items being discussed and the night’s topic:
DNA Painter Matrix Tool:
https://dnapainter.com/blog/shared-dna-at-a-glance-the-new-dna-matrix-tool/
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/shared-dna-at-a-glance-the-new-dna-matrix-tool/
23andMe sale
News of original Regeneron bids:
https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regeneron-leading-us-biotechnology-company-acquire-23andme-court
https://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regeneron-enters-asset-purchase-agreement-acquire-23andmer-256
Anne Wojcicki and TTAM asks court to reopen bidding:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/05/23andme-ceo-bid-anne-wojcicki
June 13 UPDATE: TTAM and Anne Wojcicki won the bidding! https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-details/23andme-reaches-agreement-sale-business-ttam-research-institute
Ancestry clustering tool among RootsTech announcements: https://www.familysearch.org/en/rootstech/session/using-ancestrydna-to-power-family-history
And now for Y-DNA…
Some links we didn’t discuss but may be helpful:
https://blog.familytreedna.com/how-y-dna-testing-works/
https://blog.familytreedna.com/family-finder-y-dna-haplogroup-guide/
https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/foundations-in-dna-2-of-5-understanding-and-using-y-dna-and-mtdna/
And then some links we did discuss:
Blaine Bettinger’s post about haplogroups in his Genetic Genealogy Tips and Techniques group on Facebook
SNP Tracker – http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/snpTracker.html
FTDNA’s Discover Tool – https://discover.familytreedna.com/
FTDNA estimates haplogroups from autosomal DNA: https://blog.familytreedna.com/y-dna-haplogroups-family-finder/
FTDNA Projects – https://www.familytreedna.com/group-project-search
https://blog.familytreedna.com/group-project-categories/
https://blog.familytreedna.com/group-project-types/
23andMe haplogroups – https://blog.23andme.com/articles/23andme-updates-paternal-haplogroup-assignments
Morley Tool to estimate haplogroups from Ancestry autosomal data – https://ytree.morleydna.com/extractFromAutosomal
Clade Finder tool to estimate haplogroups from autosomal data – https://cladefinder.yseq.net/
And we didn’t spend much time on Big Y, so here are some resources from the FamilyTreeDNA blog: https://blog.familytreedna.com/?s=big+y