Phil Grass 👊🇪🇺🕊️

🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃

I was wanting to write something scary like “Mixed ethnicity families in British Tv Ads”, but it didn’t fit🤦‍♂️, so I just went with IRUME😀

It feels like MyHeritage are almost giving away their DNA kits. €29/kit, plus an offer of their Complete plan for €9 for the first year (my existing sub recently expired 😀).

Given that MH have stated new kits will be processed with WGS it was a bargain too good to miss.

#GeneticGenealogy

It seems #Duolingo are stirring up trouble in Germany 😀

Complex results from a new study on late life virginity.

For anyone in London on the 13th November…

Good to see this result 👏

Just seen that 23andMe has a new "Reconstructed Ancestors" feature. see customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/art...

I'm pretty sure it's not going to work for myself - I just don't have enough close relatives to generate the DNA information. 🤷‍♂️

#genealogy #geneticgenealogy

If you’re thinking of leaving all your money to your cats …

Langende Eis

Hi #Genhour, bit late but nevertheless. I’m still cleaning up my wife’s side of the family tree. This week I’ve been working on the Langnese/Langnäse (Longnose) side.

(Image somewhat related😀)

Hi Liz, I thought Windows 10 support has already ended?

Lego Phil with an orange pumpkin head.

Temporary Profile Pic - not at all AI generated. Perhaps I should run for President 😀

Also a few interesting snippets from the blog.

1. MH will "re-phase, re-impute and re-match" all existing results (see screenshot)
2. As suspected the WGS is 2x coverage, i.e. "each position in the genome is read twice on *average*", with imputation to fill in the blanks.

MyHeritage Upgrades Its DNA Tests to Whole Genome Sequencing - MyHeritage Blog The MyHeritage DNA test has been upgraded to use Whole Genome Sequencing, the most comprehensive method for reading DNA available today.

Glad to see that MH have now added their own blog post on WGS.

blog.myheritage.com/2025/10/myhe...

Some Thoughts on the Whole Genome Sequencing announcement from MyHeritage Introduction Recently, MyHeritage announced that they are going to process their autosomal DNA tests using Whole Genome Sequencing, rather than the traditional genotyping arrays. This means, in the…

🚨NEW blog post 🚨. I wrote some thoughts on the WGS Sequencing announcement from MyHeritage it's imaginatively titled "Some Thoughts on the Whole Genome Sequencing announcement from MyHeritage". I'd welcome any feedback.

learnalittleeveryday.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/s...

#GeneticGenealogy

3/ Here's a plain language of #Amazon #AWS updates:

12:11AM Pacific: something is up, error rates spike
12:51: Getting worse
1:25: Looks like the hotspot is DynamoDB at US-EAST-1
2:01: It's problem with DNS resolution [Root cause!]
2:22: We've put in initial mitigations, not over yet.

Snapchat and Duolingo among major apps down in Amazon internet services outage - live updates Many of the world's biggest apps including Snapchat, Duolingo and Roblox have gone down, in what appears to be an issue affecting Amazon Web Services.

Probably this …

www.bbc.com/news/live/c5...

Screenshot from The Times newspaper. Underneath a picture of an extendable ladder leaned up against the Louvre is the caption “French police think the thieves used an extendable ladder to reach the first floor”. 🤷‍♂️

You have to chuckle at the subtitling from the Times. I wonder what makes the French police *think* the thieves used an extendable ladder to reach the first floor. 🤔

Not a book, but I can thoroughly recommend The History of the Germans podcast, see @hotgpod.bsky.social

Some Thoughts on the Whole Genome Sequencing announcement from MyHeritage Introduction Recently, MyHeritage announced that they are going to process their autosomal DNA tests using Whole Genome Sequencing, rather than the traditional genotyping arrays. This means, in the…

🚨NEW blog post 🚨. I wrote some thoughts on the WGS Sequencing announcement from MyHeritage it's imaginatively titled "Some Thoughts on the Whole Genome Sequencing announcement from MyHeritage". I'd welcome any feedback.

learnalittleeveryday.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/s...

#GeneticGenealogy

That’s what happens if you don’t have Health and Safety inspections. 😀

Try watching the 1978 BBC version to make it even more dismal

The disk is on display in the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale), which is one of the best/favourite museums I’ve ever visited 👍

There’s a good reason @barbaraagrass.bsky.social and I have spent the last couple of days driving back and forth across the width of Germany. 😀

We went to see the fabulous #NebraSkyDisk, one of the earliest (c.1800 BC) depictions of astronomical phenomena linking lunar and solar cycles.

Schloßpark Teutschenthal. 😀

The disk is on display in the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte Halle (Saale), which is one of the best/favourite museums I’ve ever visited 👍

Guten Morgen from Sachsen-Anhalt

I’m relying on Roberta Estes “Update – MyHeritage has clarified that only kits arriving in the lab in January 2026 are guaranteed to run on the WGS machine”.

Aargh, I phrased this badly 🤦‍♂️. From January, all kits that are sent to MH should be processed via WGS.😬

YouTube video by Novogene Unlocking Large-Scale Genomics with the UG 100 Platform and Novogene's Sequencing Solutions

p.s. Looking at the specs, the Ultima Genomics UG 100 Solaris read lengths are "225bp to 300bp+" as per genohub.com/ngs-sequence... (so similar to the Nanopore product IIRC)

For anyone interested in the technology, which uses silicon wafers, there is a video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Yh-...