Gedmatch
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Opting In
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a long time now – since April 2018, when the Golden State Killer case changed the genealogy world forever. Since then, genealogy has been combined with law enforcement efforts to find the perpetrators of violent crimes, as well as to identify unknown remains. Unidentified remains are often…
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DNA and privacy
There’s been a lot of news articles and news show segments about DNA testing and privacy, and we all know I feel about that: What I want to do here is help people make an informed choice about DNA testing, and that means facts, not fearmongering. There are three basic concerns when it comes to…
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Don’t touch the settings!
Here is a parable, and like all parables, the point is not if it really happened but the lesson we can learn from it. Once upon a time, someone asked Picasso why he could get away with making art the way he did, and other people could not. Picasso grabbed a piece of paper and…
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What is a cousin?
One of my favourite things about being a genealogist is discovering new cousins. I have a lot of cousins now, some very distant, some a little closer. I have emailed back and forth with some, friended some on Facebook and even talked to some on the phone. It’s been really wonderful making all these connections.…
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Gedmatch basics: people who match one of two kits
After my sad triangulation story I felt a little adrift. What direction should I go in next? I’m counting this post as a basic post because you don’t really need to understand triangulation to make use of the strategy in this post. However, it does help to know that there is a hierarchy of trustworthiness,…
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Gedmatch Basics, Part 1
You might be here because you read my last post Please Upload Your DNA Results To Gedmatch and you want to learn more. Maybe you’re new to the genetic genealogy world, and you’ve uploaded your results to Gedmatch but you don’t know what to do next. Maybe you’ve fooled around with Gedmatch for awhile, but you don’t feel like…
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Please Upload Your DNA Results to Gedmatch.com
(Updated February 2020) If you’re a little bit curious about what Gedmatch.com is and why you would want to upload your DNA there, read on. What is Gedmatch? If you have already done DNA testing with another company, Gedmatch allows you to take your DNA file from that company and put it in their database.…
