One thing Leeds to another

I currently get about a hour or two hour break in the morning when the baby boy takes his nap during which I catch up on Podcasts & try to get something on my list for the week done.

Today I was listening to the pod from Family Locket: Research Like a Pro episode 68 from Oct 28 2019 (we were just freshly home from having the boy when this came out so I'm catching up!) where they interview Dana Leeds about the Leeds Method of color clustering DNA matches. I haven't had a chance to try the Leeds Method but I think I get what it does. So when Ms Leeds mentioned Evert-Jan Blom's Genetic Affairs Auto Cluster (record scratch sound effect) I abandoned my plan for nap time & went on a Google search hunt. The TL;DR At some point Blom partnered with MyHeritage, while Ancestry sent a cease and desist.

I ended up at the MyHeritage DNA Tools section & ta dah!

My MyHeritage matches in AutoCluster

Be still my 80s kid heart, it looks kinda like 8bit ships

My Auto Cluster sorted for # shared Matches

This one looks like a quilt or a neat tattoo

Both images I have cropped to show the clusters only, IRL there are names along the sides

And then my son woke up. When I have more time I will dig into this more. Thank you Family Locket, Genetic Affairs, & MyHeritage for this info, sorry I'm coming to the table many months later.

Disclaimer: I paid for my own DNA test and did my own uploading, downloading, swearing at Google Drive for a zip unloader, & no one paid me to write this, I'm a sucker for visualizations of data.

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