Great overview of how the tool works! I not only understand how the tool works, I learned a bunch about DNA comparison and mapping. Thank you!

Outstanding overview. Outstanding tools. Thank you, Blaine and Jonny.

Wow ... what a well organized, articulate, and instructive presentation! I'd begun DNA painting last night, just experimenting here and there. Now I feel much more confident about mapping, and better ready to pay attention to and to make use of all the various tools I hadn't noticed nor understood before. Thanks so much, Blaine! ... and kudos and thanks to Jonny Perl!

Thanks Blaine and Jonny...I've been doing this with 4 separate spreadsheets for years and now plan to convert!

In a word "UNBELIEVABLE" !! And to think that I've been doing all of this manually. It's a new world for me.

Thank you so much for this which got me up and running with this wonderful software within one evening. Thanks to you Blaine and to Jonny too of course! What a revolutionary tool!

Wonderful! Thank you for an excellent, easy to understand demonstration.

This is awesome - thank you! I can't wait to get started!

Fabulous tutorial. I have been using for a while but there is always something hiding in plain sight that you have not seen or grasped. Thank you

I wish I would have seen this video a long time ago because I spent countless days and nights figuring out many of these concepts on my own! Thanks so much for clarifying some things for me. Awesome presentation, btw... excellent tips. I will certainly recommend it to friends! THANKS AGAIN

Thanks so much for this explanation. I am going to give this a try. I subbed you as well. Thank you and Jonny!

Great starter video. Now that I have some matches painted, what next? It would be great to have a video (or series of them) that show how to read, interpret and get meaning from the painting!

Just getting started with this. Fascinating!

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you

Thank you for putting this together Blaine. I'm curious on your thoughts if you are creating a profile for yourself if you add the segments for your parents and how you add them. It seems like it is not necessary to add parents and siblings.

Thank you! I really like the tool. I would also love to see how all the data can help us discover how we are connected to new matches.

"View and backup data" icon is now labeled "All segment data" ...and includes a link "Data backup file", which will save a .txt file ...as well as the other link to save a 'CSV file'.

Thank you very much!

This was great! I'm trying to help a "new" first cousin... and trying not to make mistakes.

Best thing I did using DNA Painter. Highly recommend, great if you have family to know the maternal or paternal. Have a bit of endogamy, but still great.

Thank you, Blaine! My holiday gifts just got more scientific!

If you have verified that small segments as low a 3 cM's are valid through autosomal triangulation, will the total number of shared cM's at 3 cM's or larger still coincide with the M.R.C.A. between 2 cousins? In other words, will the tool that allows us to type in total number of shared cM's still highlight likely cousin relationships? Thank you so much for your work!

How will someone know which ancestors your DNA match and you share if both of your match and you have on your paternal grandfather and your paternal grandmother side of the family? Why I asked this question is because my cousin father is from one of my paternal grandfather side and cousin's mother is on one of the lines on my paternal grandmother side of my family tree.

I have only one second cousin related to my Dad's mother. He did not know who his bio Dad was. I am new to genealogy and have no living relatives to ask any questions about his father. I have a couple of 3-4 cousins on his side but they match up to his mom. Does this mean that no one on his bio Dads family have not been tested? I tried to figure out DNA painter but was unable to figure it out. Thank you very much.

This seems to work if you basically know the paternal side and maternal side. How do you figure it out if a parent/grandparent were adopted. I have done a Mirror Tree on Ancestry, I have figured out the possible family link on both sides, based on DNA and matches. Yet, I don't know which would be the paternal side, and which the maternal side. It seems from the DNA painter, I would just make it up, and then later possibly figure it out by waiting for more matches. Then assigning colors, it seems like from your illustration, for every person I am trying to match with, their "paternal/maternal" side would have different colors. Hence, if I am then looking at several DNA matches I may have several colors representing paternal, and several representing maternal. I think I would go bonkers the more I add to the painter.

What do you think of having a standard use of colour codes? Resistors use a colour code.

Do you put I don’t know ( maternal or Paternal) if endogamy come in …

What does “assignment” of a dna section mean?

I start from the beginning in DNA painter, it asks me to put my name and if I'm female. So I did that. My question is how do painter knows my DNA, to compare to the rest people I'm putting in there. Is there a way to put my own DNA in there so it can be compared to me?

I understand what you are doing with DNApainter - conceptually. I still don't understand how I get from GEDmatch to DNApainter ? You said that I wouldn'nt be uploading ALL of my DNA from GEDmatch to Painter ? Please explain ?

23 & Me shows both % and cM now

I have a match with 390 cM and 4.15% on 23and me, problem he is adopted he also matches to my 2nd cousins who share same greatgrandparents with me would this means he share same greatgrandparents to us?

Does this not work on a Mac? I made three "Profiles" and they show just fine on the chromosomes, but I cannot view all three at once. I can only view them one at a time. I have put them in two groups, but only one group name shows in the "Key" at a time.

How could you do this if your parents, grandparents etc are deceased?

Extasy overload! I was excited about triangulation and now to be able to do this so easily!

will this help when ancestors were first cousins? why I asked because a few ancestors of my were first cousins to each other on my paternal side.

How do we map ch 23?

Is it true second cousins Lush are a great grandfather. This is something very important to me and I would like the accurate information on it if you could help me I would greatly appreciate it .

old needs updated...

Bill and Ann are third cousins.

Will a phased gedmatch kit work on this website?

man this is much too complicated for me ok i am 83yo but i am not stupid i have an M.S. in chemistry

DNA Painter would be great if they didn't incorrectly name GRAND relatives. There is no such thing as a "great uncle" nor a "great great aunt". It is uncle, GRANDuncle, great GRANDuncle, 2nd great GRANDuncle, etc. We have GRANDParents, not greatparents. Hard to take a site seriously that has such terrible naming errors.