iI's time to get started on one of the best tools on GEDmatch, the multiple kit analysis. But this
isn't something that we're gonna be able to cover in just one video. This is something that's going
to take multiple videos, so sit back and be ready for several episodes about the multiple
kit analysis. Howdy, I Andy with Family History Fanatics, where we help you understand your DNA
climb your family tree, and write your ancestor stories along the way. Today I'm going to cover
tag groups and how they can help you with the multiple kit analysis tool. So let's go over
to GEDmatch and show you how you can create tag groups. So here I am on the GEDmatch homepage,
and if you scroll down, you will see that there is nothing here. That says tag groups, and if you
have just a free account, you'll notice multiple kit analysis is one of the tier one tools. So how
can you create tag groups? well, there is a trick. If you go over to your profile management page,
one of the options is the tag group management. When I click on that, it will allow me to set up
whatever CAD groups I want. Now you can set this up based on matches based on family members. I'm
just gonna call this one, my close family. I can change this color to any color of the rainbow,
and then I can just add that tag group. It says that has been created. And now, when I go to tag
group management, I can see there is a tag group, but you'll notice there are no kits in this tag
group. And if I go and display, it says there's no kits exist because all I've done is create
that group. I haven't added anything to it. I'm going to manually add kits. When I click on this,
it allows me to enter up to five kits. I'm just gonna enter one of my numbers,
and it's added that one to my tag group. You can see here there is a kit number listed, and that
is what is in the tag group. Now tag groups are a way that you can organize your DNA matches.
You can color them different so that when you do a one-to-many search. Then they'll show up as that,
or you can just be able to go and look at the tag group itself. However, with the free account,
there's not a lot else that you can do. Where the power of tag groups come in is with the multiple
kit analysis tool. I've logged in now to my tier one account and as I scroll down, what I have
access to now is the multiple kit analysis. So I can use this tool in conjunction with tag groups
that I create, or I can also create tag groups within the multiple kit analysis. Let's go in
and explore and show you how you can use tag groups. I'm going to start on the one-to-many,
and it's important that you use the Tier one one-to-many for this because we're going to
use the select column over here, and that's gonna allow us to take a lot of kits over
to the multiple kit analysis. Now, these first few kits are all my family. But as you can see,
I've gone down, and I've checked several of these other kits that I want to look at together. So
after I've checked on that, I can go up, and I can click on the visualization options. Once I'm on
the visualization options page, all the kits that I've selected are listed across the top here. And
then I have all these different options, and this is why this is going to take several videos to
do. We're gonna just look at the tag groups right now. Here are my tag groups. Now you can see that
I've already created some, but there's also the option to create a new one, and this is based on
the kits that I've just selected. It says add tag group with kits. So I'm going to create a new kit
right here. I can change the color just like I did before, and then I'll have all these kits that I
just selected from the one-to-many as part of a tag group. So we'll call this my practice kit,
and we're gonna change this color so let's do a nice yellow right here at the top. And
then I'm gonna just add that tag group with the kits. It has added 21 kits to that tag group.
Now going back to that tag group, I can do several different things with these tag groups. First off,
I can display which kits are part of that tag group. I can also remove kits or add kits to
that tag group with any one of these. Now when you are adding kits or removing kits,
you have to understand which one it is. These buttons to remove kits and add kits are not to
add or remove individual kits. You'd actually have to go to the display edit tag group to do
that. What these buttons to remove or add kits is to remove or add those kits that you just selected
that are part of the multiple kit analysis. These are the kits that are just listed at the top here
that I've already blanked out for privacy reasons. Whenever you click on remove kits or add kits,
it's going to add all of those at the same time so you can quickly add multiple kits to a tag group
or remove multiple kits from a tag group if you need to. When I go and display or edit the tag
group, it's going to list all the kits again, just like we did in the free version. One of the things
that you may want to do is change who the first person is, and that is with the move to the first
button. Basically, when you create a tag group, the first person is usually what you're going to
be comparing everybody else to. In some cases, although in some other tools that we'll see,
you're actually going to be comparing everybody to everybody else. You can also delete a kit anytime
you want by just clicking on the delete kit. The Edit group attributes will allow you to change
the color if you don't like that color that you've selected and you want to change it with somebody
else, so what other tool might you want to use tag groups with. Well, you actually might want to use
it with the comparison tool of people who match both of one or two kits. This tool, right here
where this tool is very useful, is for instance, if you have a cousin or a second cousin that
you know well, then if you're comparing two kits, what you have is a list of people who both have a
common ancestor. In the case of second cousin that would be a great grandparent or in first cousins
that would be your grandparents, by putting them in a tag kit, you've basically identified the
people that all are related through that line of descent. So when you think about some other
programs like Ancestry that allow you to color code, tag groups are a way to color code things,
and by using the people who match both of one or two kits, you can quickly compare many people. I
have here on this tool a second cousin of mine that I know is related through my grandmother.
So through her parents and then I also have my kit. So all of the people that matched both of us
should be related through that single grandparent or that great grandparent pair. So let me go down
and let me see the results. So I have here a list of all the kids that match both of us. Now,
these first ones are actually all of my close relatives, so I'm not gonna worry about those.
But all the ones after this are going to be more distant relatives, and so I can just select all of
those, and I can submit those to the multiple kit analysis. Once I'm in the visualization options,
I can go over to the tag groups and add these people to a group. I can create a new tag group,
but in this way, I can actually organize a lot of the matches that I have on GEDmatch. And I
mentioned that tag groups are very useful in the multiple kit analysis, but you don't necessarily
need to have tag groups for multiple kit analysis. Although I use them with that tool lot. In the
next series of videos that I do about the multiple kit analysis, we'll go over some of those other
tools. So if you'd like to learn more about GEDmatch, then you can watch this video up here,
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