SC: What’s In Our Workflow Toolbox?

Purpose: List what is in our workflow toolbox.
Level: Beginner
Format: List

Politics, religion, tools. Enough said.

These are the tools in our genetic genealogy toolbox. There are a few others lying around we’ve forgotten.

• Walking The Clusters Back (part I), part II, part III —a description of the process we adopted

• Shared Clustering [macOS, Windows]—dashboard and clustering application

• Microsoft Excel—cluster diagram viewer and Notes editor

• Ancestry.com—primary DNA test site; DNA match and Notes database; primary family tree and tree editor

• GEDMatch.com—a little rusty from disuse

• A couple other DNA test portals

• The Shared cM Project—”a collaborative data collection and analysis project created to understand the ranges of shared centimorgans associated with various known relationships”
  • The Shared cM Project, Version 4.0 (March 2020)
  • The Shared cM Project 4.0 tool v4

• Genetic Genealogy Reading List—a list of our go-to references

• Family Tree Maker [macOS, Windows]—tree editor for bulk find-and-replace updates; relationship calculator

• macOS Reminders [macOS]—to-do list

• Zotero [macOS, Windows, and Linux]—”free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research”

• Paste [macOS]—”your personal clipboard time machine.” Updating the notes for our matches in the clustering diagram involves a lot of copy-and-paste. Find a good clipboard manager for your operating system. Paste works well for us on the Mac.