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Kitty Cooper's Blog Musings on Genealogy, Genetics, and Gardening MenuHome DNA basics DNA testing comparisons Ethnicity from DNA Using DNA testing for Genealogists DNA privacy DNA success stories Finding Family with your DNA Test When great great grandaddy is not who you thought Ancestry.com Trees Adding to your tree from your DNA matches Make a Text Pedigree from Ancestry Tree Ancestry’s Potential Parent Box Ancestry.com DNA Make Ancestry Find the Relationship Using Ancestry DNA Match Lists Ancestry’s ThruLines A ThruLines Experiment Getting your match to respond Using Ancestry’s DNA hints Share AncestryDNA Results MyHeritage DNA MyHeritage DNA matching MyHeritage Theory of Family Relativity 23andme Basics – many posts 23andme Basics Finding cousins at 23andme 23andme ethnicity by segment 23andme Family Tree from DNA Family Tree DNA family finder basics DNA Newbie FAQ More DNA Help for Adoptees Adoption Success Stories Collecting Trees with Automation Using GWorks: comparing trees Using just half your matches in GWorks DNA2tree: find the Common Ancestors Golden State Killer Methodology Using Y DNA for unknown parentage When the Found Father Needs Help Understanding the DNA Clustering Clustering via DNAgedcom Clustering with Genetic Affairs More clustering tools Clustering with Tree Building at Genetic Affairs How to tell the relationship from the shared DNA Full Versus Half Siblings Why Don’t We Share More DNA with a Sibling Segment Size is Important More AncestryDNA tips Clicking Over from Ancestry DNA Hints Figuring out an Ancestry cousin match Using Ancestry DNA Match Features Upload Ancestry DNA results to GEDmatch Connecting Ancestry DNA Matches to your Tree Copy Ancestry DNA data to ftDNA Matches on the X Contribute Your X data Using X for paternal versus maternal False matches The Y chromosome More Y posts Canine DNA testing DNA advanced DNA Relationships by the Numbers Unusual Relationships Half Sibling or Nibling? 25% relationships Sisters with the Same Dad Share a Full X When the Parents are Related Finding common ancestors with automation GEDmatch GEDmatch Basics GEDmatch Beta One-to-Many The Compact Segment Mapper Are Your Parents Related Tool Combining DNA kits at GEDmatch Gedmatch Tag Groups Using the GEDCOMs at GEDmatch DNA Triangulation Ashkenazi DNA Endogamy and DNA Lara’s Endogamy Numbers Old GEDmatch posts Moving from GEDmatch to GENESIS GEDmatch Basics GEDmatch Basics video GEDmatch tools and column headings GEDmatch to Master Spreadsheet Tier1 Utilities at GEDmatch GENESIS: the new GEDmatch GEDmatch Privacy Testing Pet DNA Genealogy Ahnentafels Index to New York City Vital Records How Many Ancestors? 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Rhyg form) Typing Scandinavian Characters Converting Norwegian Dates One World Trees Keeping multiple trees updated The World Trees and GEDcoms 2019 Tools Tools I have written Ahnen2GED, Ahnentafel to GEDcom converter Latest version of Ahnentafel list to GEDCOM converter CSV slicer (half the matches for GWorks) Overlapping Segment Mapper Ancestor Chromosome Mapper One Chromosome Mapper Making a matches spreadsheet Jim Bartlett on spreadsheets Making a CSV file Comparing GEDcoms Resources DNA blogs Populations Jewish DNA Norwegians Downloads About Me Contact Me My family history Fan Charts Munson Genealogy Thannhauser Genealogy Our GENI family tree Why a blog? Consulting Presentations Our DNA test results Our Autosomal images Subscribe All My GEDmatch Articles Apr 7 GEDmatch is one of my favorite sets of genetic genealogy tools but it can be hard to get started with. I have done many presentations over the years attempting to help people master the basics there, most recently for Family Tree University (click here ). Plus I wrote a GEDmatch Basics article for their magazine (click here ) which explains all the column headings on the one-to-many report. [UPDATE 15 Apr 2024: Click here for the interview I did for the FTU podcast.] Over the past 12 years I have written many posts about GEDmatch, most of which are still useful. So I decided to make a new tag – GEDmatch tools – which brings up just my posts that explain a specific tool. Now I can see which tools I still need to write about! Here is the list of my articles in reverse chronological order (click any title to go to that post): The Are Your Parents Related Tool, several articles: When the DNA Says Your Parents are Related The rare case where AYPR says they are but they are not How related are Ashkenazi ? 43% of European Jews show related parents so far! My 2022 attempt to explain the basics including a video and covering uploading and using GEDCOMs My 2021 attempt to explain the basics covering GEDCOMs, the one-to-many-Tag Groups, and Tier 1 combined kits The Tier 1 Tool to Find Common Ancestors among your DNA Matches My 2019 report on clustering tools How to make a superkit, combining your DNA tests from multiple companies My compact chromosome browser was added to GEDmatch for paid users from 2018 In 2017, the one to many tool added linking to family trees GEDmatch added tag groups, the ability to color code your matches in 2017 Here is the story of how I worked on an X match from GEDmatch In 2016, I wrote about how to make a spreadsheet of your matching DNA segments I wrote about how to use the GEDCOM capabilites at GEDmatch in 2015 In 2014, I discussed the Tier 1 utilities: matching segments, lazarus, and triangulation I wrote about how to use the one to one comparison in 2014 My take on DNA privacy and GEDmatch from 2014 Using the GEDmatch 2D chromosome browser Here is what I wrote in 2012 about what to do at the GEDmatch site Phasing or how to make a kit of what you got from just one parent In 2012, I wrote about the Ancestry Composition tools at GEDmatch called Admix tools This entry was posted on April 7, 2024, in GEDmatch and tagged GEDmatch , GEDmatch Tools . Leave a comment GEDmatch: What’s New and my Basics Talk Mar 6 The people behind the current GEDmatch have been working hard to improve its usability and its appearance. Tom Osypian, the QIAGEN GEDmatch Product Manager, gave a talk at the recent Rootstech about what’s new there. I hope some of you went to that! I was sad not to make it this year, other than virtually. Meanwhile on this Thursday March 7, I will be giving an updated version of my talk on GEDmatch Basics for Family Tree University. This webinar is designed to help the new user understand how to use the terrific tools on that site. Now to list the main new features. Most every function now has a drop down list of your kit numbers (cut and paste still works) You can import your family tree from the FamilySearch website if you have an account there You can click over to the People who match both of two kits function from the one to many. Emails are now partially concealed. Use of computerized collecting will shut down your account. Personally my favorite new feature is the click point called Match on each match in the one to many tool. That takes you to a pre-filled form for the person you did the one-to-many for to compare them to the person in the resulting list. This gives you a quick way to see which of your relatives on GEDmatch match the new match, and thus what family line they are likely from. I also tried the import of our family tree from FamilySearch for my brother’s kit and it worked beautifully. One small problem was that my Norwegian grandmother has a foreign character in her middle name so she came over as ? Lee (just her surname). I have reported that problem. Showing the first...