6 November 2014: Today WikiTree.com is announcing two important features for genealogists who have taken DNA tests. These features make WikiTree’s Relationship Finder a uniquely powerful tool for genealogists who have taken 23andMe, Ancestry DNA, and FTDNA Family Finder tests.
“One of the biggest challenges facing genetic genealogists,” according to Dr. Blaine Bettinger, author of the long-running blog The GeneticGenealogist,
“is finding the elusive common ancestor. Finding genetic matches is
easy, but finding the common ancestor from whom we inherited a segment
DNA is very hard. WikiTree’s new Relationship Finder is a great tool for
identifying the ancestors that two or more people share in common.”
All Common Ancestors
Genealogical
relationship finders are generally designed to find the first common
ancestor between two people. Genetic genealogists need to know about all
the common ancestors they share with a match. Everyone’s family tree
intertwines in multiple ways. The first shared ancestor may not be the
reason for a shared segment of autosomal DNA.
WikiTree’s Relationship Finder now enables you to easily browse all your common ancestors.
Filtering for Multiple Matches
When
a genealogist shares a segment of autosomal DNA with two or more other
people who also match each other on that segment, it’s a big clue in
discovering which ancestor it came from
WikiTree’s
Relationship Finder now enables you to filter the common ancestors
shared by two people to only display common ancestors who are also
shared by a third, fourth, or fifth person.
The Universal Family Tree
These
Relationship Finder features are possible because WikiTree members are
collaborating on a single tree for the entire human family.
“The
genetic genealogy community absolutely must have a universal family
tree,” says leading genetic genealogist Dr. Tim Janzen. “With smaller
unlinked trees it's frequently impossible to see all of the true
genealogical connections with the people who share autosomal DNA with
us. We are finally getting to the point where this vision is becoming a
reality at WikiTree.”
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