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Using the Visual Phasing and DNA painting techniques a genealogist can slowly reconstruct the DNA of his ancestors. From their reconstructed DNA, he can learn a lot about his ancestral heritage and find more easily the connection with new genetic cousin. These methods require the continually adjust the genome map with the new genetic cousins that test. I intend, in this blog, to follow up on the development of the genomic maps of both Joseph Leclair and Lisa Kelly in the coming months to show their evolution in time.

Here is a diagram showing Joseph and Lisa’s descendants who have done DNA testing. The yellow boxes show cousins that contributed to reconstruct Joseph and Lisa’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 Leclair and Kelly DNA.

From the DNA results of these nine descendants, it was possible to rebuild 40 % of Joseph Leclair and 37 % of Lisa Kelly’s DNA. Here are their respective genome maps as of May 16th, 2021.