DNA is great for identifying relatives, particularly when you don't know how you might
be related to them. But what's even better is if you have a genealogy tree that you can attach to
that DNA. It helps people who don't know how they're related maybe have a few more clues to
look where you guys might share a common ancestor. Howdy, I'm Andy with Family History Fanatics, and
this is a segment of DNA. Be sure to subscribe to our channel and click on that bell if you want to
be notified about upcoming episodes. While Genesis is great for allowing us to share DNA with people
from other companies that have tested as well. One thing that it does have that has the ability that
you can actually attach a tree to your DNA. Now there's some limitations. So first off, what it
is is it's a gedcom file that you are uploading to the Genesis website. Now the Genesis website does
not have a way that you can actually manipulate that gedcom file once it has been uploaded. So if
you want to upload it once every year or so, then that's probably good. For the most part, you're
not gonna need to touch that. The second thing is you want to think about how much information you
want to share in this gedcom file. Now I usually strip my information down to just the names,
dates, places for birth, marriage, and death because that's about all the information that
somebody's gonna need to be able to make a initial judgment as to whether or not they think that
we're related. And third, the most important thing you need to do is actually upload that gedcom file
onto the Genesis system. So let me show you how you can do that. Here we are on the GEDmatch
Genesis website. And if we scroll down, what we're gonna find at the bottom is where it allows us to
upload our gedcom file. So the first thing you need to do is just come down here to the upload
a gedcom fast. And click on that link. Now Genesis is gonna give you some information about what you
can put in there. Basically, there's a maximum file size of about 10 megabytes. Personally,
I would actually just go through and maybe do 7 or 8 or maybe 9 generations at the most because,
from a genealogical matching standpoint, that's about the extent autosomal DNA is going to be able
to match you reliably. Now, if you have a much larger database and it is less than 10 megabytes,
then you can still upload that, but a lot of people aren't necessarily gonna be scrolling
through that many different generations. There's one other thing that you need to recognize about
your upload. And that is any gedcom that's uploaded is going to be able to be viewed
by anyone else. And so it's important when you create your gedcom pile that you privatize any
information that is for living people or if there's information that you don't want other
people to see that it's privatized as well. I'm gonna show you how to upload two different files,
one that's been privatized as well as one that has not been privatized. Now what I've done is
I've actually created a fake family for myself that has names that are not what my family is.
It has dates it's not what my family is. And has places that is not where my family is necessarily
from. So I'll be able to show you the full file as we're going through that. So the first thing
on this list is we want to go through, and we want to fill in the information. It wants us to have
a name for this gedcom file I'm just gonna call this one the non-privatized. Next is it's gonna
ask for the GEDmatch kit number of the person who is the main person on this gedcom file. Now I can
select no kit. I can select any of these others, so for right now, I'm gonna just select me because
I am the main person of this gedcom file. Then we have the permission, and that is do you agree this
following is true for everybody that's listed in the gedcom file, one, you have the authority
to show that person's identity that would be yourself. If you're putting your own information
in. Second is you believe that this person is not alive. That should be the majority of the
people in your gedcom file. And finally, you have privatized entry. If I change the name to living
or similar so a lot of programs will automatically privatize a gedcom file whenever you select that
as you're creating it. So, in this case, it defaults to no, but you want to select yes,
so if you don't select yes right here, your gedcom file is not going to upload. Now I'm gonna go, and
I'm gonna find that gedcom file on my computer. Once you've selected that from your computer,
you'll actually be able to see the name of the file. Right after that, click button, and at this
point, you're ready. Now to upload, just click on upload, and it will go through the process of
getting all that information up onto Genesis system. Now you can see this happened really
quickly. It was just a small file. I only had about three generations on this, and it gives me
some information here. First off, it gives me what the gedcom ID number is. This is different from
your kit number for each one of your DNA kits. Then it also has a link to that home person. So
I'm gonna click on that home person. It's going to go and take me over to the information about that
person. And this is how we can actually see the gedcom information on Genesis. So, in this case,
this is me, and it says when I was born, and it says who my father and my mother are, and it has
the kit number that I have attached. This is one thing that you always want to check to make sure
you have the correct kit number attached to that file. If you want to add another kit number or if
you want to change the kit number, then you can just follow the information here to delete the
old kit number and put in a new kit number. And finally, the last thing is, is the point person.
This is basically the nexus of how different relationships are going to be calculated. So, in
this case, since this is me, I'm going to click on the point person. So I've just set myself as the
point person for this gedcom file now. Right now, it's just looking like it's looking at one person.
We have a couple of options up here. We can go over to pedigree. And pedigree is going to show us
our pedigree chart. Now, this might look a little bit different again. It's a scaled-down version of
what a lot of other programs may show, but you can see there is me and then my parents and then my
grandparents and then my great-grandparents. I've actually got four generations on this chart. Now,
if you went for more generations, then there might be a little arrow right here at the end
of these people that tell you that you can go to even more information. But for right now,
I just have this. If you want to change a number of generations that's being shown, you can go up
to this click box at the top here. For instance, I'm going to changes to 3 generations. You can
see it's now a shortened down. And if I want to go to the next level, I click on that button,
and it's gonna go to the next level. Now I can click on any one of these people, and it is going
to show me the information from the gedcom file about that person. Now, this is Fred Lee, and he
is married to Elizabeth Johnson, and they have one child George Lee. Now, if your gedcom file
has multiple children, then all those children are gonna show up here. But what's great about this is
besides just looking at a pedigree chart, we can go backwards. We can also look at the ascendency
chart, where we can go forwards by clicking on the descendants. Then what we see is we have Fred Lee
here, and he is the first generation and then next is his spouse Elizabeth Johnson and then George
Lee. And you can see he's a second-generation with his spouse Mary Brown. And then John Lee is
the third generation was married to Jane Smith and then finally myself. I am the fourth generation,
and there's that little icon that indicates that there is DNA attached to that person. So
these two views are great views for being able to navigate through somebody else's gedcom file
or your own gedcom file if you want to verify some information. Now let me show you what a privatized
gedcom file is going to look like. We're gonna go down, and we are going to upload a gedcom file.
Next, we're going to name this, and I'm going to call this the privatized file. For the person,
I'm actually going to select my buddy Phil Garnett as the main person. Now when we get
down to the question, I can click yes because I've privatized all of the living individuals. Finally,
I'm going to choose my file. And now I'm ready to upload. So looking at this just right off the bat,
you can see that instead of a name here, it just says living on that gedcom file, and that's
because it's replaced my name with living because I'm still alive. Since I don't have a death date,
it's gonna automatically know that I am living when I create that gedcom file. So when I click on
that person, you can see that it says I was born in California, but it doesn't give a birth date,
and that's because when I created this file, I stripped out all of the years when people were
born, but I left the place. You can also see that my mother and father are still living.
So I click on the pedigree chart will go there, and you can see that it has my grandparents and
my great-grandparents names and dates. But for my parents and for myself, it just has living
and in the location of where some of those events happened. So one of the things that
I would recommend is when you create your gedcom file uploaded onto Genesis and immediately check
that file and see have you privatized everything does. It say living for all those living people.
If it doesn't, then you're going to want to go in and you're gonna want to delete the file and
re-upload it. So let me show you how you can delete that file. If we go back to our home
screen and we scroll down, you can see I have these two gedcom files. Now the privatized one
and the regular one that I had before. I'm going to click on here to manage my gedcom resources.
It gives me some instructions about how to do the different operations, but I scroll to the bottom,
and you can see if I want to delete a file, all I got to do is click on the red X. So
I'm going to delete my privatize file. It's going to ask me to confirm it. In this case,
yes, I want to delete this gedcom file. Now once you've clicked that it is permanent,
you can't get that gedcom file back. I scroll down you can see that now I just have that one gedcom
file. So if you have a kit on Genesis, make sure you upload a gedcom file to it because the more
kits that have gedcom files attached to them, the better the database is as far as searching.
Now I'm gonna be making another video that shows you how to use some of the tools to be able to
search and the gedcom files and find matches that way. But for now, if you have any questions about
how to use a gedcom file on Genesis, put it in the comments below, and I'll try to answer it
for you. And if you like this video, give it a thumbs up and share it with all your friends.