you may have family members that take a dna test but they really don't have any interest in
genealogy and you want to be able to access that information so how can you manage other family
members dna on ancestry howdy welcome to family history fanatics where we love helping you climb
your family tree and have fun along the way before we continue if you want to help support our work
there's many ways you can do that there are links in the description below to our website to show
notes and free guides but the most important thing is is to leave a comment and share this videos
with others we continue to grow thanks to people like you one of the great things about ancestry is
it allows you to manage other people's dna so that when you log in not only can you look at
your dna results but you can also look at others dna results and this could be family members this
could be friends it could be clients really could be anybody who actually goes through this process
to share their dna with you so let me take you through this process so you can understand
how you can share dna or allow others to share their dna with you now it starts off on the dna
homepage for ancestry up in the corner there is a little button that is circled here that says
settings you want to click on that and that's going to take you over to the dna settings for
you or this is might be one of your family members that you're walking them through from
this page you're going to scroll down until you see this sharing preferences box in the sharing
preferences box we want to click on the little change arrow there and that is going to show us
who has access to our dna right now you can see here that it's just my wife that has access to
her dna there's an option to add a person so we'll click on that and it's going to then ask us to put
in their username as well as what level we want them to share so there is viewer where they can
just view the results there's a collaborator where they can review these results they can add notes
and they can click on favorite match and then there's manager which actually gives them full
control so they can view and modify the test details they can message users they can download
that raw data for the most part when you're sharing your results you're probably going to want
to share it as viewer or collaborator although if you have family members who are not interested in
dna at all you might want to see if they will let you be the manager of those results so that
you have full control over that now in this case i put in my email address and now you can see back
on the sharing preferences it has invited me to become this viewer so i'm not able to view it yet
but i have been invited so i go over to my email and there is an email from ancestry which says
that hey i've been invited to view devon's ancestry results i can click on the review
invitation it's going to have me sign into my account even if i'm signed in already it's still
going to have me sign into that account to verify that i am the person from that email it's going
to pop up this screen that allows me to accept this invitation it tells me what i will be able
to do with their dna results and after i accept that invitation it goes to my dna screen now you
can tell this because up in the corner you can see that i am signed in but it is looking at
my wife's dna results so i'm able to view her dna results now now if i ever want to change between
her or anybody else there is the view another test that is on the screen there that i can just click
on that and it'll give me the list of people that i have access to and i can always switch between
them just by logging in myself so me and my wife don't even have to share logins for ancestry
we can each have our own and we can view each other's results once we have shared it with them
now i go back to ancestry and now looking at these sharing preferences you can see
that i am no longer listed as invited but i am listed now as just a viewer so i have that access
that she's given to me now under that viewer you can always click on that and change what level
you have given them so maybe they start out as a viewer but as things go on you realize you know
what no i need them to be a collaborator because i want them to be able to add notes to my things
the other thing you can always do is you can delete people from your view
so by clicking on the x it's going to ask you are you sure you want to remove this person
you click on the remove and now you will notice that i am no longer listed there and
if i go to my account i cannot view devin's dna results anymore and that's really how you can
get your family members who you want to manage their dna because they're really not interested
onto your account so that you have access to that this is a really good way to help consolidate
these things i've used this with several family members who've consented to tests but they really
don't have an interest in managing the dna or looking at it anymore so by having access to that
i can do the research that i want for their family lines for them and be able to share that data with
them as well if you still have questions about dna then consider joining us for our live streams
where we answer your dna questions or become an fhf extra member where we have even more training
and live streams to answer your questions now devon has a great video about through lines
which uses family trees and dna to help find relatives you can look at the top video there
or if you want to learn something else about dna then check out this video down below