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Time flies by quickly with school, the full-time job and the snow teasing the downhill skier in me. I can’t believe February is already here!

Last May, I briefly talked about the Visual Phasing and DNA painting techniques. I also presented the reconstructed genome maps of Joseph Leclair and Lisa Kelly. Now more than ever, DNA can play a great part in genealogical findings when the archives and records are no longer of any help. Such is the case for anyone researching the McAllister and McKinley families. For that reason and in order to help further research about those families, I share with you the genomic maps of both Archibald McAllister and Eliza McKinley.

Here is a diagram showing Archibald and Eliza’s descendants who have done DNA testing. The yellow boxes show cousins that contributed to reconstructing Archibald and Eliza’s DNA. The green boxes show known cousins that have tested but that haven’t transferred their DNA to GEDmatch.com, where it can be used to unearth McAllister and McKinley DNA.

From the DNA results of these 10 descendants, it was possible to rebuild 41 % of Archibald McAllister and 38 % of Eliza Mckinley’s DNA. Here are their respective genome maps as of February 2, 2022.