Do you have a gedcom file Gedmatch? if so then you can use some of the tools that help you find
other people and progress your genealogy. Howdy I'm Andy Lee with Family History Fanatics and
this is a segment of DNA. Be sure to subscribe to our Channel and click on the bell if you want
to be notified about upcoming episodes. GEDmatch actually started out as a gedcom matching program.
That's why I got its name GEDmatch as opposed to DNAmatch. Those tools that were first created for
matching gedcom files are still available to use with the power of DNA added to them. So today I'm
gonna go over how you can use those tools on GEDmatch. So once you log on to GEDmatch then
you're going to actually scroll down. And you will see the gedcom files that you have uploaded and
down a little further are going to be the gedcom tools. Now we're gonna go through each one of
these tools one at a time so that you can see how you can use these gedcom files. Now the first one
that I like to look at it really is the search all gedcoms. Now for this one you don't need a
gedcom file of your own. This is searching all of the gedcom files. And there's about 100,000
gedcom files that have been uploaded to GEDmatch. Now just like with many of these search databases,
you're just going to put in what information you know about the person that you may be looking for.
So you can put in a name you can put in, a place, a date of birth. Let's just say 1800. And I'm
going to say the United States and maybe that's all the information you know. And then clicking
on the search is going to have results that are going to show you where all of the gedcom files
might have been from. So here we have a list of the gedcom files that match that information and
I can click on each one of these gedcom files to zoom into it. So for instance this is John Smith.
He was born in Kentucky in 1800 and it tells me a little bit about what his parents are,
if he has any children, who he was married to, and that is all provided with links to
the pedigree and links to the descendancy. So if I want to look at the pedigree chart I can
look at the pedigree chart. If I want to see well what his descendants are like I can see
those descendancy charts. So the search all gedcom is probably really easy to understand
and it is just like searches on any other of the genealogy websites. You're just searching
those gedcom files that people have uploaded. So let's start looking at some of these others.
The first one here is one gedcom two. Also this is actually going to be searching your gedcom
file - all of the others. So you need to make sure that you have your gedcom file number. I'm
just gonna copy that and I'm going to go in and I'm going to search all of these other gedcoms.
It has me enter my number and then it gives me some options here. Now depending on how closely
I want things to match will depend on whether or not it is actually going to show results.
So start off with what the default is and if you're getting too many results then you can
change those defaults to limit the number of results that you're getting. In this case the
gedcom file I've created here was just a bunch of bogus names and dates. So I don't expect to
have a whole lot of matches because it doesn't actually match anything in reality. Now this is
searching through 100,000 gedcom file. So it may take a little bit before it starts to find some
matches for you. So let's look at what a match looks like. You can see here in this first box
this is telling me what the gedcom file is and it gives me the contact information for that person.
It gives me the name of the person that donated that how many people are in that gedcom file and
if there's any DNA kids that are attached to that gedcom file. Then it's going to show me the people
who I match in that gedcom file. And so you can see that I have a William Brown in my file that
was born in 1895 in Missouri. And there gedcom file has a William Brown. Also although this
one was from Galston it has some parents listed as well. So from this I can decide whether or
not this is a match. And what I've done is I have clicked on the confirm match and it gives me this
information that this match is confirmed. Now if I want to I can remove that confirmation as well
the other thing that this shows is this actually has links to both of our gedcom files. You can
see from these two icons right here. If we go up it tells you that one of these links is to the
descendancy and the other link is to the pedigree. So if I want to look at this William Brown and see
some more information I can just click on this link and it's gonna open up the pedigree or it's
gonna open up the descendancy for that person. So the next tool that you want to look at is the
two gedcoms comparison. And in the two gedcom comparisons you need to gedcom kit numbers. So
I'm gonna put in my kit number and that other kit that I just matched and then I can compare
these two kits. And what it's going to do is it's going to go through and it's going to see all of
the matches just between those two kits. So this is a lot quicker than what the other search does
because it's not searching through all 100,000 of them it's just searching through this one kit. And
you can see in this one kit I only have this one match which I already talked about and again it
has the same links that if you want to be able to go and look at the pedigree or the descendancy of
that kit then you can click on those to be able to see it. Also if you actually click on the person
itself it's going to go to that individuals page and you'll be able to see the information attached
to that specific individual. The last tool is one of my favorite and that is the gedcom plus
DNA matches. Now for this what you need is you need a DNA kit number. So I'm going to use one
of my DNA kit numbers and well see what this is showing you now once the results pop up what you
can see is this is like DNA match list only it's a little bit different i.t is a DNA match list
that only has those matches which have a gedcom file attached to them which is great if you're
looking for certain trees. So you can see as I'm looking down here I have these are on my
other account for my grandfather and myself or my grandmother and then there are some other kits for
other people and I have their contact information. Now a lot of these DNA names and the gedcom names
are going to be hidden because they are indicated as living people. In the gedcom usually the only
people that are going to show up are those that are deceased and so in this case you can see that
my grandfather who's deceased he's listed as deceased in this gedcom file. And so it shows
up with his name on there. Now the reason why I like this so much is because now I can actually
go to any of these kits and since I know that they have some pedigree information I can start
do a quick search to see what matches I might find. I can use those kit numbers with the two
gedcom matching tool to see how similar our gedcom files are if we have a line that is matching. So
those are the tools that GEDmatch has for gedcom matching and again this is what GEDmatch started
out as is a gedcom matching website and so these tools are really great for analyzing
different gedcoms and seeing whether or not you have something rather than having to go through
each line to see if you have an individual in there. So if you have any questions about how to
match gedcoms on GEDmatch put it in the comments below and I'll try to answer it. And if you like
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