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 create a Tree…!!!!

The Family Matching feature assigns maternal or paternal icons to a customer’s match list based on phased matching to close relatives in conjunction with a special Family Matching threshold. 

In order to take advantage of this feature, a user must have a tree uploaded or created in their Family Tree DNA account, and the DNA kits of relatives must be linked to the appropriate individual in the user’s tree.

The Family Matching feature allows you to view your confirmed maternal and paternal matches at a glance when relatives from that side of your tree have tested with Family Tree DNA.

For more information go to the FTDNA FAQ’s page regarding : the Family Matching System

https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/ftdna/ftdna-family-matching-system/

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