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Ancestral Trees

FTDNA Tool Help 1: How to upload a GEDCOM

A family tree is one of the most essential major tools used by those who match someone. It is the major tool describing how a match matches another. To upload a GEDCOM, go to your personal page and click on the family tree button. On the top right is a …

FTDNA Tool Help 2: How to add Ancestral Surnames and Locations

A second very essential tool everyone should have is their Ancestral Surnames and Locations. These surnames and places give matches a sense of genealogical history of their matches and can help tell the match how the two are matching. To add Surnames and Locations to your page, go to your …

FTDNA Tool Help 3: Joining Projects

You may “join” as many projects as you wish. Some project administrators, however, place restrictions on who joins or due to the type of project they administer. Some projects are surname only, or location only or by some other criteria established by the administrator. Our project is open to anyone …

FTDNA Tool Help 4: Advanced Matching Tool

One tool helpful to members of groups that not many people may not realize is there is an Advanced Matching Tool. This tool is found on your personal page on the right side of the Family Finder Section, assuming you have taken the Family Finder. Click on Advanced Search. Choose …

FTDNA Tool Help 5: “In Common With”… and “Not In Common With”

On your Match page of Family Finder you can click on anyone you wish. Then, click on “ ICW” link at the top of the page. The database will give you all persons who match you AND the match on who’s name you clicked. BUT….the database is just saying you …

FTDNA Tool Help 6: Family Matching Tool

Want to take half of the speculation out of HOW your matches match you? You have a couple thousand or hundreds of matches. Which ones are on your paternal side and which ones are on your maternal side? This tool will help you immensely. BUT…..For this you will have to …

MyHeritage A New Place for DNA, etc

I have tested with FTDNA, Anestry and 23 and Me. Several years ago 23 and me decided they would outsource their trees with MyHeritage. So, I uploaded a tree there via GEDCOM. My tree apparently was more than the “Free Tree” allowed and I never could figure out how to …

New FTDNA Privacy Settings

If you have been with FTDNA for a while this message is really not for you unless you purchase a new kit. However, a few people currently have their settings set where others cannot see things when they really would prefer others could see their information. In most cases the …

Scandinavian Ethnicity in Great Britain and Ireland

Warning: strpos() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /home2/micbarn1/public_html/micsXchromosome/wp-includes/shortcodes.php on line 192 Following is from the Ancestry Blog of June 23, 2015 http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry It explains a lot about why I have such a high Scandinavian ethnicity count when I can not account for more than 1 or …