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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 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 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 …

Brick Wall Broken- Shared DNA Success Story!!! -Part 1

  Note: This is the First Part of a Two Part Post. Following is a link to Part 2: http://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com/brick-wall-broken-by-shared-dna-part-2/ (Note: Hopefully, you have read my 4 Part blog called Shared Chromosomes. If not, I suggest doing so after reading this success story. It will guide you through the methodology …

Brick Wall Broken By Shared DNA Part 2

  Please Note: This is Part 2 of a Two Part Post You can Read Part 1 Here: Brick Wall Broken By Shared DNA-Part 1 http://micsxchromosome.micbarnette.com/brick-wall-broken-shared-dna-success-story-part-1/     While conducting one of my online searches I came across a message on Genealogy.com. John Arnold, a descendant of Willis Arnold, son …