A DNA cousin who just uploaded his ftDNA results to GEDmatch asked me what he could do with them, so I decided to write a blog post to answer this question. Here are my favorite things to do there:

• make pretty pictures of your populations ancestry – called the Ad-Mix page
  (see more on that below)
• get a list of possible relatives who have tested with other companies as well as the one you tested with, that is the “One to Many” option on your home page. Email addresses are shown but you cannot just click on them, you can cut and paste the first part but then you have to retype the ISP  (prevents spam)
• look at a specific area of one chromosome to see who else matches you there – “Find people who match
  with you on a specified segment”
• compare your GEDcom to one other to see of you can find that elusive MRCA
• compare your GEDcom to all your DNA matches that have uploaded GEDCOM files

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