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DNA Chutes and Ladders: Strategic Use of Ancestry’s Enhanced Shared Matches

April 22, 2025 by Rick T. Wilson, Ph.D.
DNA Chutes and Ladders: Strategic Use of Ancestry’s Enhanced Shared Matches

If you’re of a certain age, you may remember Milton Bradley’s Chutes and Ladders game. Even if you don’t know it, its use as a metaphor to autosomal DNA research will not be lost on you. In this post, I demonstrate how to use Ancestry’s Enhanced Shared Matches to “ladder” back to an unknown ancestor. … Read more

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