The secrets out! Had a fabulous time at the Secrets and Lies Conference. The secret message (written in a pigpen cipher) on the postcard revealed the lives of George Gooch & his wife-to-be Margaret Townsend, as well as a dramatic Norwich Fire. Lots more postcard fun was had on

Looking foward to Kempton Park on Saturday - DNA to talk about, will you be there?

23andMe :Ancestry Composition Update 2025 23andMe blog.23andme.com/articles/ances… 👀 Here is a quick look at my new ancestry composition side by side with the previous version. Here I’ve clicked on the percentage for each of my main regions - (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England 75.6% and 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Scotland 18.1%),

Well the new AncestryDNA update has arrived. All looks great with loads more regions and a much more detailed breakdown Only unusual issue with mine is that I am now 11% Netherlands, assigned as maternal. Only problem is my mother is 0% and my paternal uncles (all 5 of them)

We still have a few late places available for our DNA seminar in Oadby, Leicestershire, on 18th October 2025 so please don't delay, book today. Speakers include Debbie Kennett 🧬🌳 and Donna Rutherford one-name.org/seminar-events/

BREAKING DNA NEWS this afternoon. MyHeritage becomes the first major DNA testing company to fully adopt Whole Genome Sequencing; the upgrade leverages technology by Ultima Genomics and processing at the Gene by Gene lab This will be for all new kits at My Heritage - the

Looking forward to doing the keynote presentation at the Guild of One-Name Studies DNA Seminar this Saturday. I'll also be doing a further session later in the day to show genetic genealogists how to use spreadsheets, note-taking tools & project management systems to organise

The MyHeritage blog about the WGS update - I'm still very excited about this news blog.myheritage.com/2025/10/myheri…

We hosted an excellent and inspiring DNA seminar in Leicester. The recordings of the talks are now available in the Members' Room. Enjoy! (Note not all talks were recorded.) one-name.org/dna-seminar-20…

Major internet outage this morning - I've been reporting since about 8am when Canva went down, then I noticed Ancestry down and more . Mainstream media now reporting the problem as a AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y8…

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a longstanding weakness in the internet's infrastructure. wired.com/story/what-tha…