December Meeting

Hi folks,

This month Jesse Casas will share his family story with our DIG. Using traditional genealogy research coupled with DNA testing, he has successfully identified his father’s biological parents. Jesse will step us through his incredible journey.
Ya, we know it is close to the Holiday and you are all stressed out. Perhaps hanging out with us Genetic Genealogy Junkies for a couple of hours is just the break you need.

Weather Reminder – if the State Library is closed due to weather, so are we 😉

Hope to see you there. But, if you are unable to make it —
Have A Wonderful Holiday – see you next year

Peter Smith and Nancy Lecompte
Central Maine DNA Interest Group
We DIG Genetic Genealogy

Maine State Library
10am to noon
3rd Saturday of each month

November Meeting

Our November meeting will explore the X chromosomes. Learn what makes them so special to genealogists. Discover some charts that will help you navigate your way in the maze. See how the X can be used to focus your research.

And, as always, bring your DNA questions with you and we will help you find answers.

Hope to see you there!

October Meeting

Just a reminder, our October DIG meeting is this Saturday from 10 to noon at the Maine State Library. Nancy Lecompte will present “Getting Started at AncestryDNA”. Learn how to navigate your AncestryDNA account to discover your family history. There will be plenty of time for questions and answers, as well as discussing other topics you need help with.

Visual Phasing

Visual Phasing is special kind of chromosome mapping technique. It requires three or more full siblings to put into action. The result is a chromosome map for each of the siblings showing where the crossovers occurred when the parent produced the egg or sperm. When luck and cousin matches are in your favor, the resulting segment map will assign every segment to the specific grandparent it originated with.

Start your journey by visiting the Visual Phasing Facebook Group. The Facebook group is the only way to get Steven Fox’s incredible Excel workbook that automates much of the visual phasing process.

Blaine Bettinger is the King of explaining Visual Phasing. He offers both paid and free resources. Here are the free ones.

https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2016/11/21/visual-phasing-an-example-part-1-of-5/
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2016/11/22/visual-phasing-an-example-part-2-of-5/
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2016/11/25/visual-phasing-an-example-part-3-of-5/
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2016/11/26/visual-phasing-an-example-part-4-of-5/
https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2016/11/27/visual-phasing-an-example-part-5-of-5/

This is the link to download a PFD by Blaine on Visual Phasing

Blaine also makes a 6 hour presentation available to purchase.

Anthropology

Are you fascinated by the idea of being part Neanderthal? Do you find the journey of the human Y-chromosome and mt-DNA interesting. Would you like to know what part your ancestors may have played in the history of the world.

Gedmatch has some tools you may find interesting.

Several of the admixture projects and calculators with tell you how you compare to ancient populations.

Their free tool ” Archaic DNA Matches” produces an interesting heat map showing which ancient kits at gedmatch you match the most.

You can compare yourself one to one with a number of ancient people in their database. Felix Immanuel has put together a list of kit numbers and information about each ancient one over at Genetic Genealogy Tools
http://www.y-str.org/p/ancient-dna.html

Don’t forget to stop by the ISOGG wiki to learn more – https://isogg.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA