GEDmatch is one of my favorite sets of genetic genealogy tools but it can be hard to get started with. I have done many presentations over the years attempting to help people master the basics there, most recently for Family Tree University (click here). Plus I wrote a GEDmatch Basics article for their magazine (click here) which explains all the column headings on the one-to-many report. [UPDATE 15 Apr 2024: Click here for the interview I did for the FTU podcast.] Impact-Site-Verification: d124adea-1323-4f60-a2fb-f1fdf846aa56

Over the past 12 years I have written many posts about GEDmatch, most of which are still useful. So I decided to make a new tag – GEDmatch tools – which brings up just my posts that explain a specific tool. Now I can see which tools I still need to write about!

Here is the list of my articles in reverse chronological order (click any title to go to that post):

• The Are Your Parents Related Tool, several articles:
  • When the DNA Says Your Parents are Related
  • The rare case where AYPR says they are but they are not 
  • How related are Ashkenazi? 43% of European Jews show related parents so far!
• My 2022 attempt to explain the basics including a video and covering uploading and using GEDCOMs
• My 2021 attempt to explain the basics covering GEDCOMs, the one-to-many-Tag Groups, and Tier 1 combined kits
• The Tier 1 Tool to Find Common Ancestors among your DNA Matches
• My 2019 report on clustering tools
• How to make a superkit, combining your DNA tests from multiple companies
• My compact chromosome browser was added to GEDmatch for paid users from 2018
• In 2017, the one to many tool added linking to family trees
• GEDmatch added tag groups, the ability to color code your matches in 2017
• Here is the story of how I worked on an X match from GEDmatch
• In 2016, I wrote about how to make a spreadsheet of your matching DNA segments
• I wrote about how to use  the GEDCOM capabilites at GEDmatch in 2015
• In 2014, I discussed the Tier 1 utilities: matching segments, lazarus, and triangulation
• I wrote about how to use the one to one comparison in 2014
• My take on DNA privacy and GEDmatch from 2014
• Using the GEDmatch 2D chromosome browser
• Here is what I wrote in 2012 about what to do at the GEDmatch site
• Phasing or how to make a kit of what you got from just one parent
• In 2012, I wrote about the Ancestry Composition tools at GEDmatch called Admix tools