Patent ID: 8855935

Claim:
A method of displaying indicators of related individuals, the method comprising: providing genealogical data of an inquiring individual corresponding to at least one known progenitor; associating a genetic input of the inquiring individual with the genealogical data of the inquiring individual, wherein the genetic input includes data comprising at least one of a Y-chromosome (Y-cs), mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and autosomal (A) gene or marker contained on a non-sex chromosome; identifying, by a processor and from a genetic database stored on a computer-readable medium in response to the genetic input of the inquiring individual, one or more individuals having a shared ancestry with the inquiring individual, wherein the genetic database includes data comprising at least one of a Y-cs, mtDNA, and A gene or marker contained on a non-sex chromosome, and wherein at least one of the one or more individuals having a shared ancestry with the inquiring individual was unknown to the inquiring individual at the time of the identification; and displaying indicators of the inquiring individual and each of the one or more individuals; having a shared ancestry with the inquiring individual, wherein the data included in the genetic input includes at least one of a genetic marker and a chromosomal fragment identified from a biological sample including genetic material obtained from the inquiring individual.