Wednesday, February 27, 2019

MyHeritage Ties Together DNA Testing, Family Trees

Lehi, Utah- and Tel Aviv, Israel-based MyHeritage, which provides both family history and DNA testing resources for genealogy enthusiasts, says it has launched a new feature which ties together both historical records and family records to explain DNA connections between users. According to MyHeritage, the two--which have traditionally been used separately--have been combined into a "data graph" which it says can help explain how people linked by a DNA match might be related, based on their family trees and historical records. The company called its new technology "The Theory of Family Relativity". MyHeritage said the advance helps deal with what it called "puzzling lists" of thousands of distant relatives, without any explanation of how those peple might be related. MyHeritage says it is using data from family trees on MyHeritage, as well as the World Family Tree on Geni, and the family tree of FamilySearch. The new feature is free.