Family Tree DNA (ftDNA) has a very good FAQ at
http://www.familytreedna.com/faq/answers.aspx?id=17#602
Still the step by step tutorials are always nice to have. Here is the ISOGG page family finder tutorial which needs an update
http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Family_Finder
and these three posts on haplogroup.org by Rebekkah Canada show some of the new features not listed in the ISOGG article yet:
Part 1 – http://www.haplogroup.org/ftdna-family-finder-matches-get-new-look
Part 2 – http://www.haplogroup.org/ftdna-family-finder-new-look-2
Part 3 – http://www.haplogroup.org/blog/2013/10/02/ftdna-family-finder-matches-new-look-3/
And even more corrections and new features:
http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2013/12/ftdna-releases-updates-in-response-to.html
And another post about the new matrix feature:
http://genealem-geneticgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/12/and-ftdna-features-just-keep-rolling.html
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I am searching for. My gg grand parents. And other unknown reajativis including muggy grandmother and grandfather some of them lived in Arvonia. And Buckingham county Appomattox Va Lynchburg pubbeyriver Stapletonect. Johnson mMCcoys Ferguson’s abd on my mothers side Robinson etc.thanks Mott Johnson.
I would like to download my family tree dna results to gedmatch for geanology research
Get yourself a user id on gedmatch and then log in. Go to the top right box, click generic file upload then click the little ? To get the instructions for getting your data from family tree DNA
Amedning, it is not a question mark, there is a click point to the instuctions for Family Tree DNA . You may need to be logged in to see this: https://www.gedmatch.com/gedwiki/index.php?title=FTDNA_DNA_Upload
Hi my name is Linda and I have downloaded
my raw Dan from Fonda and ancestry to gedmatch
To see the difference in percentages and other population
I’m matching. I’m guessing it’s better to download raw data
To get a more precise reading. Is gedmatch good to use are the
Calculations correct when using decade?
Correction typo dna not Dan lol
My phone does lots of miscorrecting of words too!
Best to mark one of those kits at GEDmatch “research only” so you do not appear twice in other people’s one to many lists.
Gedmatch has some nice admix calculators but then so does DNA.land and MyHeritage so upload your data to those sites too
Here is my article on ethinicity predictions:
http://blog.kittycooper.com/2012/12/new-ancestry-composition-tool-at-23andme/
and here are my slides on the ancestry composition at GEDmatch
http://slides.com/kittycooper/gedmatch#/
Hello Kitty,
I did the National Geographic DNA test. The results were a shock, so a transferred to FTDNA. I am so confused, on the match I get so many cousins starting at second cousins, none with my family names. I know some of my second cousins and none are on the match. Should I contact any of them to see how they are related to me? and how can I tell is it is worth doing so? Can you give some good advices. Thank you and Best Regards AB
Its lots of fun to get to know new cousins and they often have family stories or photos that you do not have so definitely worth getting in touch and building your family tree together. One word of warning though when it says 2nd to 4th cousin, it is most likely not a 2nd cousin. Closer family will always share big chunks so if the largest segment is not at least 50cM they are unlikely to be a 2nd cousin