Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Beyond your autosomal DNA test

You have finally bought your autosomal DNA kit, sent it in and have your results. Now what?  If you bought it from Family Tree you can take it and download the results and put them on Gedmatch.com  You can not, however, put them on Ancestry.com, Ancestry does not allow you to download your results from other sites. That is a shame of course since they have the largest database. 

If however, you had your test done at Ancestry.com you can download your results and add them to Family Tree for free. If you really want to be able to use the result to the full extent, you will need to pay $19 to unlock some of the other features that they offer. It takes about 24 hours for your results to be available to you after the download. 

You may also download your raw data to My Heritage. Different people have their DNA at different sites so the more places that you place yours, the more likely you are to find some useful matches. 

I have downloaded mine to all of them and one of my brothers to Family Tree since that is where I had his Y DNA tested. I will update you all as I find useful matches. 


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