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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Hi Project Members: In this post I have information about FTDNA’s annual Christmas Seasonal Sale and discount coupons. I will also talk about different types of tests, so, be sure to read this and subsequent posts as I will be disseminating new information about tests and things about your …
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays Everyone! Below I have listed some coupon Discount Codes for this weeks FTDNA Holiday Sale. Please check your own Personal Page to view your own coupon. If it does not do what you want, come to this page and find one that will help. Also, if you …
The purpose of the following series, “Shared Chromosomes”, is to discuss and demonstrate how using shared matches between multiple family members can be useful in discovering on which side of one’s family, paternal or maternal, a common match resides. Once identified matches can be compared on the Chromosome Browser and …
In this part of the series I will show how a family of DNA testers can collectively give guidance as to which side of the family a match emanates. A friend and member of one of the projects I administer was kind enough to allow me to use his …
This segment of the blog will address my own matches. As stated earlier I have a total of seven siblings and other relatives grouped together. First, there is my siblings-my sister, Fran, and my brother, Cliff, plus, myself, Mic. Second, I have two 1st cousins-Cousin Peggy, a daughter of …
In Shared Chromosomes Part 2 we saw how easy it was to discover on which side of the family a match was when parents are included in DNA testing and how it is even better when grand-parents are tested. In Shared Chromosomes Part 3 we saw how testing 1st and …