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 which test your wish to search for matches you may have taken -Y-DNA, mT-DNA, Family Finder, X-Chromosome.  

You can search for a match or surname

You can stipulate the whole database or only a given project, like ours. By picking a specific project you are targeting people in that project who likely would be there for the same reason as you, for example, they share, somewhere in their woodpile, our (project) surname.

For more information go to the FTDNA FAQ’s page regarding Advanced Matching Tools: 

https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/user-guide/family-finder-myftdna/advanced-matching-page/

Here is a list of some of my most recent blogs designed to help you get more and better research results from your FTDNA matches:

FTDNA Tool Help 1: How to upload a GEDCOM

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

FTDNA Tool Help 3: Joining Projects

FTDNA Tool Help 4: Advanced Matching Tool

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

FTDNA Tool Help 6: Family Matching Tool

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