(Cross posted to Azores, Madeira, and IslandRoutes lists) Just a reminder...You only have a couple of days left before My Heritage starts charging on Dec. 1st. Original email below:
For those who have DNA tested, you will want to download your raw data from whichever company and transfer it over to My Heritage DNA before December 1st. Each testing company has developed different tools and has different population samples. Transferring to MyHeritage DNA is currently free. Use of their tools will be grandfathered in. Beginning December 1st, you will have to pay. No, I don't know the amount. Here is what Dick Eastman says about the transfer: https://goo.gl/F5VScW Here is Roberta Estes' step-by-step guide to downloading and transferring: https://goo.gl/9bYpyM Roberta went to My Heritage's conference last week and spent a lot of time at the DNA lectures. Roberta does have a scientific or technical background, so she completely understands this stuff. She tries very hard to break the science down for the us to understand in her blog, DNA-Explained.com. She wrote a long, detailed article on how DNA matching is done at My Heritage. All companies have their own similar processes. I encourage everyone to read the article and try to follow along. You don't need to understand the gory details. The only understanding is that there's a lot of science and stuff behind the scenes going into these matches and it's not a perfect science. There's no way to appreciate it until you read (or attend) lectures like this. So read her latest blog with the understanding that you are following along and will only digest small portions of it: https://goo.gl/uAnanQ Cheri Mello, Family Tree DNA Admin (volunteer) Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 12:23 PM Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > (Cross posted to Azores, Madeira, and IslandRoutes lists) > > For those who have DNA tested, you will want to download your raw data > from whichever company and transfer it over to My Heritage DNA before > December 1st. > > Each testing company has developed different tools and has different > population samples. Transferring to MyHeritage DNA is currently free. Use > of their tools will be grandfathered in. Beginning December 1st, you will > have to pay. No, I don't know the amount. > > Here is what Dick Eastman says about the transfer: https://goo.gl/F5VScW > > Here is Roberta Estes' step-by-step guide to downloading and transferring: > https://goo.gl/9bYpyM > > Roberta went to My Heritage's conference last week and spent a lot of time > at the DNA lectures. Roberta does have a scientific or technical > background, so she completely understands this stuff. She tries very hard > to break the science down for the us to understand in her blog, > DNA-Explained.com. She wrote a long, detailed article on how DNA matching > is done at My Heritage. All companies have their own similar processes. I > encourage everyone to read the article and try to follow along. You don't > need to understand the gory details. The only understanding is that there's > a lot of science and stuff behind the scenes going into these matches and > it's not a perfect science. There's no way to appreciate it until you read > (or attend) lectures like this. So read her latest blog with the > understanding that you are following along and will only digest small > portions of it: https://goo.gl/uAnanQ > > And transfer over now, before American Thanksgiving and other things that > will come up and make you forget :) > Cheri Mello, Family Tree DNA Admin (volunteer) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
