The odds of knowing your cousins: 23andme Part 1
Bizarrely, Jonathan Zittrain turns out to be my cousin — which is odd because I have known him for some time and he is also very active in the online civil rights world. How we came to learn this will...
View ArticleThe privacy risks of genetic genealogy (23andMe part 2)
Last week, I wrote about interesting experiences finding Cousins who were already friends via genetic testing. 23andMe’s new “Relative Finder” product identifies the other people in their database of...
View ArticleHaplogroups, Haplotypes and genealogy, oh my
I received some criticism the other day over my own criticism of the use of haplogroups in genealogy — the finding and tracing of relatives. My language was imprecise so I want to make a correction and...
View ArticleEverybody is your 16th cousin
In my article two weeks ago about the odds of knowing a cousin I puzzled over the question of how many 3rd cousins a person might have. This is hard to answer, because it depends on figuring out how...
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