In episode 323 of the Research Like a Pro Genealogy podcast, Diana and Nicole discuss using AI to create DNA descendancy diagrams. Nicole shares how she used AI to help write a proof argument for a DNA research report on her ancestor, Sally (Keaton) Reeves. She used Claude.ai to generate a descendancy diagram of DNA matches, which is an important part of any proof argument incorporating DNA evidence.
Nicole walks through her process of using the AI, the prompts she gave it, and the results. She highlights the benefits of using AI for this process, such as color coding and time-saving, but also notes the drawbacks, including occasional inaccuracies and formatting issues. Nicole also explores using Lucidchart’s integrated generative AI for creating diagrams. Listeners will learn how to use AI to generate descendancy diagrams for their own research and proof arguments.
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Transcript
Nicole (1s):
This is Research Like a Pro episode 323 Create DNA Descendancy Diagrams with AI. Welcome to Research Like a Pro a Genealogy Podcast about taking your research to the next level, hosted by Nicole Dyer and Diana Elder accredited genealogy professional. Diana and Nicole are the mother-daughter team at FamilyLocket.com and the authors of Research Like a Pro A Genealogist Guide. With Robin Wirthlin they also co-authored the companion volume, Research Like a Pro with DNA. Join Diana and Nicole as they discuss how to stay organized, make progress in their research and solve difficult cases. Let’s go.
Nicole (41s):
Today’s episode is sponsored by Newspapers.com. Well, hi mom and hi to everyone listening today,
Diana (49s):
Hi Nicole How. are you doing today?
Nicole (51s):
Great. I’ve been working on my portfolio and it’s fun to feel like I’m making progress. How about you?
Diana (58s):
Oh, good job. Well, I’m working on the case study, and I want to submit this to the NGSQ, the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. And I have it all written, but now I’m working on getting my citations into the style that the journal uses. And so that has been such an interesting process. What I’m doing is I have my Airtable research log and then I added an extra field for the NGSQ style citation because the censuses are greatly condensed from what I have for my traditional template for a census. And so I’ve been using AI to help me because I put in a sample of how it should be and then I put in my traditional one And I say, make this change.
Diana (1m 45s):
And then it does it for me really fast. And it’s just so much easier than me going in and doing all of the abbreviations and taking things out. So, you know, as we talked about in our last episode, whenever you’re doing something that’s tedious or mundane, think about how AI can help you. And that’s one of the uses I’ve been working with AI on.
Nicole (2m 4s):
Awesome. Have you been doing it within Airtable or using ChatGPT?
Diana (2m 9s):
I’m actually using Claude.
Nicole (2m 11s):
Nice.
Diana (2m 12s):
So I tend to use Claude a lot. I just like Claude. I don’t know, I have a bias there, but I, it’s been really nice.
Nicole (2m 22s):
Well, when we were teaching Research Like a Pro with AI, I definitely noticed that I liked Claude better for citations.
Diana (2m 28s):
Yep. For some reason it works the best with those. Let’s do some announcements. We have our Airtable research logs for genealogy second edition with a bonus file that has been added and it’s called Text Generation with Airtable AI. We’re excited about our September webinar for our Research Like a Pro series for 2024. This will be on Saturday September 21st at 11 AM Mountain Time. Our presenter is Karen Ramon and she is giving us a presentation titled Proving the Parents of John G. Winn: A 19th Century New England Study. And the topics for this will be Massachusetts Vital Records, census Newspaper, cemetery, and probate.
Diana (3m 12s):
Her description is An undocumented history gave clues to John G. Winn’s parents. Using the Research Like a Pro method, those clues turned into evidence! The development of a strong locality guide and a journey through courthouses and cemeteries, combined with online sources and a town clerk’s office, led to various records that helped conclusively document John’s connection to his parents. So we’re excited to hear from Karen. Our next Research Like a Pro DNA study group begins February, 2025. And if you’re interested in joining us as a peer group leader, be sure to fill out an application, which you can find on our website. Please join our newsletter for coupons and notifications of all of our latest blog posts, podcasts, and information about what we’re doing.
Diana (3m 56s):
We’re excited about upcoming conferences. The Association of Professional Genealogists Conference is happening this weekend, September 19th, to the 21st, which will be virtual and Nicole is presenting there. And then the East Coast Genetic Genealogy Conference, October four through six in Maryland or online. And we’ll both be presenting a recorded lecture for that. And then I have three lectures for the Texas State Genealogical Society Family History Conference, which is also virtual. So if you choose to, you could attend all three virtually.
Nicole (4m 32s):
That would be great. I would recommend that
Diana (4m 35s):
That’s such a great option. Yes. Well, in our Research Like a Pro with AI workshop, Nicole taught a lesson about using AI to help with writing. And part of that lecture was on writing proof arguments. And the example was a DNA proof argument. So Claude AI, which we were just talking about, can generate descendancy diagrams of DNA matches, which was such a fun discovery. And as anyone who’s worked with DNA knows, you have to have diagrams. And those are really important in your reports or your proof arguments. It’s important in your research just so that you can see what you have.
Diana (5m 17s):
But that’s often time consuming and can be kind of difficult. So you know, having AI help us with diagramming I think will be a game changer. Nicole, as you were experimenting, you happen to look at Lucidchart to see if they have integrated AI into their diagramming tool. And yes indeed that feature came out the spring of 2024, which is really exciting. And it’s funny how sometimes we don’t notice these things, right? We just hadn’t noticed that.
Nicole (5m 47s):
Right. It’s just that small little menu item, which if you didn’t recognize it, you wouldn’t know. But since I was thinking about it and thinking why wouldn’t it be integrated, it caused me to look a little deeper into like recent blog posts and things. And there it was. Well, when I was teaching in the Research Like a Pro AI workshop about writing and proof arguments, I used an example from a recent research report that I wrote. And at the end of the research report I got really close to proving my research objective. And the final thing that I wanted to do was add DNA evidence. So we’ll talk a little bit about this, but I was basically wanting to know if Sally Keaton Reeves was the sister of my ancestor Lucindra Keaton Welch.
Nicole (6m 35s):
And my starting point is that those two were both listed as heirs of William Keaton’s estate. But Sally Keaton Reeves lived somewhere else. And I didn’t know who her children were. And I didn’t know where she lived. And I just wanted to trace her forward to see if I could find the correct sister and the children. So one of the documents in the estate file of William Keaton said that Sally and William Reeves resided outside of the state of South Carolina and an additional clue to their residence was found toward the end of the estate file. A list of heirs living outside of the vicinity of South Carolina.
Nicole (7m 17s):
And next to the Reeves family’s name, it states Tennessee WV. And I never figured out what the WV meant, but I thought the Tennessee was very clear that they were living in Tennessee. Well, family trees didn’t state any children for Sally Keaton and William Reeves nor their residence after 1830. So very little was known at the start of the project aside from what I had transcribed from those 56 images in William Keaton’s estate file. So my specific research objective for that report was to identify the children of Sally and William Reeves.
Diana (7m 50s):
Well, let’s go over the documentary evidence that you found in your Sally Keaton case. So Nicole examined records of multiple men named William Reeves, probably a common name from 1830 and Tennessee and identified key evidence, a trace migration route, and some children of Sally Reeves. That’s so great. So, found a Reeves family near William Keaton in Anderson County, South Carolina, and discovered that Burgess Reeves, a family member, had married Francis Molden. Further research showed John Mauldin Reeves as the son of William and Sarah “Sally” Keaton Reeves, confirming Sally’s identity.
Diana (8m 30s):
This family later moved to Gibson County, Tennessee, then to DeSoto, Mississippi. Wow, that’s so great to find that. Well then Nicole uploaded those findings to Claude by Anthropic and asked to integrate those documentary findings with DNA evidence to prove that Sally Reeves and her descendants were biological descendants of William Keaton. And the AI outlined the key documentary evidence, it included estate packets, will census data and gravestones and established a strong basis for further DNA proof argumentation.
Nicole (9m 6s):
Right. So I just wanted to kind of get the key evidence in my mind it was being a creative partner at this point, helping me think of like ideas for my proof argument. And I did notice that a key piece of documentary evidence was missing in the brainstorming session. You know, ’cause I had uploaded my report to Claude and it had been helping me think of the evidence. And I remembered there was one thing we needed to add, which was information about Burgess Reeves wife and her surname Mauldin. And just a little bit more about how that was key for connecting John Mauldin Reeves to his proposed mother Sally Keaton Reeves whose father William Keaton lived near Burgess Reeves.
Nicole (9m 49s):
So it was all kind of reliant upon these building blocks of, okay, William Keaton lived near Burgess Reeves, Burgess Reeves married Francis Mauldin. William and Francis were probably the parents of William Reeves who then moved away to Tennessee, who then had a son he named John Mauldin Reeves. So that Mauldin surname was showing up in Burgess’s grandson and helped connect the migration path of Sally and William Reeves. And you’re right, William Reeves name was super common in Tennessee. There were like 10 or so William Reeves in Tennessee at that time. And since I didn’t have a county then I had to look at all of them.
Nicole (10m 28s):
And that was challenging because there wasn’t a lot to go on. I didn’t really know their exact ages. it could have been an older man, a younger man. So it was kind of hard. Well I went ahead and continued brainstorming with Claude and, and after kind of getting the documentary evidence the way I liked it, I thought, well I’m just gonna go see if I can find some DNA matches right now while I’m working on this lecture that I can add in to this example of a proof argument and see, you know, how else can Claude help me with this proof argument if I find the DNA matches and, and kind of give it the information, will it help me make my figures?
Nicole (11m 10s):
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Diana (12m 14s):
Well let’s talk about the addition of DNA evidence to this exciting discovery. And in the report, Nicole had suggested future research to explore DNA evidence. And while going back and forth with Claude, she checked my DNA matches and found no relevant through lines because no trees had children under Sally Keaton. So there were no DNA matches from her descendants. So Nicole added a hypothesized son, John Walden Reeves to the tree to generate new through lines and then further investigated the known Keaton descendants color.group and filter the shared matches by the surname of Reeves.
Diana (12m 55s):
And this approach yielded a few matches and she located one with John Mauldin Reeves in their tree. Hooray, that’s always so fun. Then Nicole used Claude AI to create a descendancy diagram showing how myself and the match are descended from William Keaton through Sally and the sister Lucindrilla. And was really impressed with Claude generating code to produce an SVG image file the diagram complete with labeled colored boxes. So that is so neat. The diagram wasn’t perfect but it was exciting to learn that Claude was actually capable of doing this.
Diana (13m 36s):
So here’s the prompt, A DNA match, match one, a third great grandchild of Sally, Keaton Reeves and Diana, who is a third great-granddaughter of Lucindrilla Keaton has been found. They share 11 centiMorgans at Ancestry DNA. Diana’s line goes from herself to Bobby Jean Schultz, Eddie Bell Harris, Doc Harris, Melissa Welch, Lucindrilla Keaton. Match 1 is a son of unknown Twilley, Elza Twilley, Martha Reeves, John Walden Reeves, Sally Keaton Reeves. Lucindrilla and Sally were likely sisters. The common ancestors are William Keaton and Katie Gresham making them fourth cousins. Can you draw a diagram of this relationship to use in the proof argument?
Diana (14m 18s):
The resulting diagram included the phrase fourth cousins below the diagram, which turned out to be incorrect because Nicole had pictured the relationship in her mind and tried to count generations without a diagram and got it wrong. So this is why we do diagrams.
Nicole (14m 33s):
So true,
Diana (14m 35s):
We have all done that before. But in this process, notice that Claude did well with drawing the actual diagram. It didn’t do so well with understanding relationships between people in the diagram. So Nicole, you continued to find additional matches and asked Claude to add them to the diagram and simply said they’re lying back to the common ancestors. So once you had that prompt with me and my line drawn, then you could just keep adding. So for instance, another descendant of Lucindrilla, Sideny Bone also shares 11 centiMorgans with Match One. John is the son of Sidney Francis Bone, Margaret C. Harris, Melissa Welch, please add his branch to the diagram.
Diana (15m 17s):
And what did Claude do? Well it made a couple duplicates at first, which had to ask it to combine. And this is such a good example of how we often have to keep working with the model. So Nicole wrote there are duplicates in the diagram, merge the two boxes for Lucindrilla into one, merge the two boxes for Melissa. Then she simply typed the line of descent of each new match discovered into the quad conversation and the code was regenerated. And once the code was generated, the image would appear and you could toggle back and forth between the code and the diagram.
Diana (15m 58s):
So the final diagram turned out to have five matches and the blog post shows the image of that and it’s fun to see how it worked actually looked great. So that was really a fun experiment and exciting to see the capability of Claude in taking those words and creating a diagram.
Nicole (16m 19s):
Right? It was really neat. And our listeners might be wondering, is it safe to put DNA match information into Claude or ChatGPT? And you need to know the privacy settings of each of those with Claude. The privacy settings default to private and it only will train on users data, which means providing that data that you put in back to the large language model. And humans that help fine tune things, it will only do that if you click a thumbs up or thumbs down or if it’s flagged for a trust and safety review at Claude. So your information stays private if you don’t use the thumbs up or thumbs down, then at ChatGPT it automatically defaults to training on your data.
Nicole (17m 2s):
So you have to go into your settings and manually turn that off if you want to use private information DNA matches. For this experiment, I actually didn’t put in the match names, I just put in like Match 1 and Match 2 and then gave their line back. And so I didn’t really put in anything private. Well the result was a good diagram that I can actually use in my report. And the benefits I noticed in using Claude to generate this diagram are that it was very fast and it decided to color code each branch, which was kind of a neat benefit in a way that I didn’t, I don’t always do it that way, but I really like the way it looks because it does help you distinguish different branches through independent child lines.
Nicole (17m 45s):
And then going back to how fast it was, I didn’t have to spend any time creating boxes and lining them up and while Claude was generating code and building the diagram, I was searching for more matches. So it was a lot like a coworker, one of the roles Ethan Mollick mentions AI can play in his book Co-Intelligence. It helped me with anonymizing the names of matches for the blog post. So I had actually put in initials at first to try to keep it more private and then later I decided to go extra private for the blog post. So I did Match 1 and stuff. So when I wanted to do that anonymization, I didn’t have to do it myself. I just gave Claude a prompt on that same conversation. When I came back to it a couple days later, it was actually a week or two later and just said, take version one of that chart and anonymize the names of these people to be Match 1, to Match two.
Nicole (18m 38s):
And then it actually saved all the different versions of the chart that it had generated. ’cause the first version only had one match and the second version had two matches and so forth. So it was nice to say, see that all those versions were saved when the diagram was incorrect or had a text spilling out of the box. I was able to type prompts to correct the issues, like merge the two boxes for Melissa and change this really long name Sally Keaton Reeves to just be Sally Reeves. And so I didn’t have to go try to fix that myself. I could just type it out and it would do that. I noticed that the code used to draw the diagrams seems like a great way to potentially change the look and feel of the diagram myself if I can learn how the code works.
Nicole (19m 18s):
And it wasn’t too complicated. So it was kind of like a tutor in that way where it was teaching me how Python code works to generate images. Chatting with the chat bot though is a pretty easy alternative. So I don’t know that I would need to go learn how to make the code. I could just tell it to change the colors if I wanted to. Probably one of the greatest benefits was anytime I added a new match, I didn’t have to try to space out all the branches again and add a new one in the center. I could just tell Claude to do that and it would do it itself. So that was really nice.
Diana (19m 49s):
Oh my goodness, yes. That is such a pain when you have to do that yourself and often I mess things up and things get out of alignment and you just spend time fixing it up. So just be able to use words and have it do it. That’s, that’s brilliant. Well there are some drawbacks of using Claude that you discovered that sometimes the writing went outside the lines of the box and it consistently failed to recognize the relationships in the diagram. So it did create a list of relationships below the diagram, you know, it just wrote them out and almost all of them are incorrect. So it has trouble with that. This is a good idea of it looking perfect until you actually read it and go, no, we are the human in the loop.
Diana (20m 37s):
Remember at first, Claude created the duplicate of Melissa Welch and Lucindrilla Keaton. So you know, you had to see that and do the merging and every time you add a new person, the code and diagram regenerate, which does take time. So how long did it take to regenerate each time?
Nicole (20m 55s):
The code takes a little bit longer, especially the more people you add, it’s still really fast. I mean it’s, you can watch it typing it types faster than I can type, but didn’t really matter to me because I was working on other stuff. Like I said, we were coworkers. So it was doing that and I was looking for more matches.
Diana (21m 13s):
Yeah, yeah, that’s great. The output is an SVG file, which you may not be familiar with. So you can’t edit yourself each individual box or colors without adding a new text prompt. And the SVG files can’t easily be turned into diagram files as far as you could determine. And it didn’t know how to save it as a diagram file. When you tried importing it into Lucidchart, it resulted in one image, not an actual diagram with editable shapes. And I know you were hoping that it would just let you start working on it, but it didn’t work that way,
Nicole (21m 50s):
Right? So that was frustrating. But at the same time, I think if you want to create a diagram with Claude, you could have all of the people and the relationships already done. Like you could even copy and paste from Airtable probably and say, take this table of information and use the column that says the line to the common ancestor to make a diagram. You know. And, I would be curious to see how that would work. Adding it in one at a time worked really well because it, the beginning when it had some errors, I could correct those errors and then because it was all within the same conversation, it remembered my corrections and so it got better. So the first time you do this, I would try doing it one by one.
Nicole (22m 33s):
And then you could maybe add in three matches at a time after you’ve got it like you good or something.
Diana (22m 39s):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Nicole (22m 40s):
But yeah.
Diana (22m 41s):
Yeah, I would imagine if you tried to do a whole bunch at once you’d, you’d get kind of a mess, at this point. Now as it gets smarter and works better, maybe we could do that eventually. But I’ve noticed with kind of complicated things, if we build little by little, it works much better because then you’re, you can really see what’s happening and not have to fact check every single box, you know?
Nicole (23m 4s):
Yeah. And the way I did it was how I actually do my work normally. I usually find the match and then go add them into Lucidchart and then find another match and then go add them into Lucidchart because I need to know their relationships. And I can’t picture it in my head very well.
Diana (23m 20s):
Yeah. Yep. That’s why we do diagrams.
Nicole (23m 22s):
So it would work well to do it that way the same way that you would do it normally in Lucidchart. Well, speaking of Lucidchart, I did look to see if AI was included in Lucidchart when I wrote this blog post. And voila, it was, it just seems like all the companies that are big enough and have budget for it, and some and small ones too are incorporating AI into their existing tools. And, I had already noticed that Canva and Airtable, two tools that I use all the time have generative AI tools already integrated. And so I wasn’t too surprised when Lucidchart had already been integrating AI as well as as long ago as like the spring of 2024.
Nicole (24m 6s):
So I didn’t find this out until August. Well, they’re using the Microsoft Azure Open AI service and Lucidchart states that their AI generated diagrams will be editable. So you can make edits within Lucidchart and also the data we put in there will stay private. They don’t send users data back to Open AI to train the model. And the AI capabilities are currently available to all users. So even if you’re just a free air, free Lucidchart user, you can still try it. But eventually it might be subject to a paid subscription model. We don’t know. Well, if you’re in Lucidchart and you want to start a new AI diagram, you’re going to need to look for the little AI symbol on the sidebar, which is two four point stars that kinda look like diamonds and one is smaller than the other one.
Nicole (24m 58s):
And you’ll see that on the left sidebar, kind of down towards the bottom and it’s just a little icon. It doesn’t say anything. So you have to click on it to see more and it will say generate diagram when you open up that tool. And so in the box that appears, you have a text box for your prompt, you need to type out a prompt. And the one I gave it was draw a descendancy diagram showing how two DNA test takers descend from William Keaton. The first test taker is Diana, son of Bobby Jean Schultz, son of Eddie Bell Harris, daughter of Doc Harris. And I’m actually not typing out daughter of and son of I’m using the < symbol or > or whatever it is.
Nicole (25m 38s):
One of those carrot things. The sideways arrow. Yeah. And so I just stated Diana’s line back to William Keaton. And then my next sentence was, the other DNA test taker is Match One, the child of unknown Twilley in quotation marks. And then the carrot symbol Elza Twilley son of Martha Reeves, son of John Malden Reeves son of Sally Keaton Reeves, son and daughter of William Keaton. Well, interestingly, Lucidchart’s AI generated this diagram with the common ancestor on the left instead of at the top. So it was horizontal and the descendancy lines were flowing horizontally to the right instead of from the top down, like the diagram in Claude, or like I usually do it well below the text box you can choose the orientation.
Nicole (26m 28s):
So it was already just default selected to horizontal. So I just clicked the vertical arrow, meaning that I wanted my diagram to flow down vertically instead of horizontally. So that was an easy fix. And then to enhance the diagram’s, readability in a report, I adjusted the size of the font in Lucidchart and resize the entire diagram to be less tall. And this is what I love about Lucidchart are all of their features for editing things and condensing them down or making the text bigger or smaller. Just all the little edits that you might want to do before you use the diagram. And so the result was an a very easily generated diagram that I could then incorporate into my proof argument.
Nicole (27m 13s):
So this was amazing.
Diana (27m 16s):
Hmm, that is great. And it looks beautiful. Could you go in and change the colors? Yeah. I mean, how much editing could you do? So you could do just like a regular diagram. Yes. Do all the editing. You wanted just
Nicole (27m 26s):
A regular diagram where it just, you can move things around, change colors, change everything. It was completely editable.
Diana (27m 35s):
I wonder if we can do this with existing diagrams. Just click AI and say for this diagram, add this branch. You know? Oh yeah. We can continue working with it even. I bet even if we don’t have to start a new one, I mean it’s got the diagram right there, why couldn’t it do edits and things on existing work? Oh,
Nicole (27m 52s):
Now we’re gonna have to play And, I wonder if, I wonder if you say change each child line to be a unique color
Diana (27m 59s):
And things like that, that would be cool. And what about all the ones that are marked in green? ’cause I don’t know, whatever color you use for showing that it’s a DNA match and you could say anonymize all those match one, match two, match three. If it could just do that for you automatically.
Nicole (28m 14s):
I bet it could
Diana (28m 17s):
These things. Yeah, this will be so fun. The other thing I was thinking as you were talking was that you could use this to maybe do a mind map type thing with your research. So you know, like create a circle in the middle, that’s the will and then create. I you maybe you could put a will in there and say, can you diagram these relationships? Ooh, that’d be cool, wouldn’t it? We
Nicole (28m 38s):
Need to have a whole like day where we just experiment with all this.
Diana (28m 43s):
I know. It’s so fun. Well, it hearkens back to what we keep saying, whenever you’re doing a task and it seems tedious or mundane or you need to have some ideas, brainstorming, creativity, think if AI can help you do that, and you don’t know until you try it.
Nicole (28m 59s):
So yeah.
Diana (29m 0s):
Wow. So fun. Well, our conclusion after all of this is that this is going to be great, that we will no longer have to draw our own descendancy diagrams. We can let AI help us whether we’re using something like Claude or using the AI directly in Lucidchart, which is what I’m going to do, since that’s what I use anyway. And it will be so great not to have to move boxes around, try to line things up. I inevitably mess things up so badly. Oh my goodness. So many times I’ve had to undo. So that’ll be great moving whole branches to make space for new DNA matches lining up generations. It’s really exciting to think what we could do to help us with our work.
Diana (29m 44s):
And this idea of DNA diagrams is going to be game changing. I’m so excited that you discovered it was there for, it’s been there for a while. So anyway, what a fun, fun discussion on that.
Nicole (29m 57s):
Well, hooray. Well thanks everyone. We hope you have a great week and we’ll talk to you again next week. Bye-Bye
Diana (30m 3s):
Bye-Bye
Nicole (30m 2s):
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Nicole Elder Dyer, “Create DNA Descendancy Diagrams with AI,” blog post, 6 August 2024, Family Locket, https://familylocket.com/create-dna-descendancy-diagrams-with-ai/.
Claude AI chatbot by Anthropic – https://claude.ai/
Lucidchart Announcement about AI – https://lucid.co/blog/lately-at-lucid-spring-2024
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Research Like a Pro with DNA Resources
Research Like a Pro with DNA: A Genealogist’s Guide to Finding and Confirming Ancestors with DNA Evidence book by Diana Elder, Nicole Dyer, and Robin Wirthlin – https://amzn.to/3gn0hKx
Research Like a Pro with DNA eCourse – independent study course – https://familylocket.com/product/research-like-a-pro-with-dna-ecourse/
RLP with DNA Study Group – upcoming group and email notification list – https://familylocket.com/services/research-like-a-pro-with-dna-study-group/
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