Do you ever need to find some other users on GEDmatch? And sometimes, do you have a kit number,
and you want to figure out what the email address that goes with it? Well, today,
I'm going to show you how to use the user lookup. Howdy, I am Andy with Family History Fanatics,
and this is a segment of DNA. This is part of a series about all the different tools on the new
Genesis system for GEDmatch. And today, I'm going to show you how to use the user lookup and talk
about some of the instances where you might want to use it. So once you've logged into the Genesis
system, the user lookup tool is going to be right over here in the information section. And this is
a great tool to be able to lookup by the Gedcom number by the kit number or by the email address
to find any of the users of the GEDmatch system. Let's talk about some different ways you may need
to use this. For instance, you may have downloaded a match-list from GEDmatch a year two years five
years ago, but you didn't download the email addresses with them. As you're going through,
you actually have found one of those kits that looks like might be promising for some research
you're doing right. Now, in that case, what we can do is we can go over to the GEDmatch DNA
kit number, and we can type that kit in and when we click on display results. It's going to tell
us who that kit belongs to by their name or their alias by their email address. And it's also going
to tell us whether or not there are any gedcoms that are attached with that kit. Now let's say,
for instance, that we actually know the kit numbers and we have an email address attached
to it, or let's say that you've got an email address from FamilyTreeDNA or from another
match that's emailed you and you want to see what that kit number is because they didn't
tell you what that kit number was. In the email address section, if you type in the email address,
then it will tell you all of the kits that are attached to that email. And so here you can see
this is the main one that I use, and it actually has all of these kits that are attached to that
email. And it's only giving the alias of those, but it's also going to give me the gedcoms that
are attached to each one of those different kits. Now the third way that we can use the lookup is
if we have a gedcom number. If we were doing some research with different gedcoms and we were going
through and finding them, and we want to see what that gedcom numbers attached to, then we can put
that gedcom ID number in this field. And when we display results, it's going to give us the name
of the key person for that gedcom. It's going to give the email address of the contact, and it's
going to give us the kit number that is associated with. Now recognize here that this person may not
be living. This person may have already passed on the kit number that's associated with it also
may not be a living person depending on who has uploaded that kit, but this gives us the contact
information as far as the email address that we can then email those people to find out some more
information about that gedcom. Now a couple of things that I'll just point out here, and they say
it in the destructions, right here, is first off, wild cards aren't allowed. So you need to know
the exact kit number or the exact email address. You can't just know a partial on that. The other
thing is you don't have to worry about upper and lower case. It doesn't matter. And finally,
the last thing is that if the owner of this kit or of this gedcom has marked it as private, it's
not going to show up, and that is in a nutshell. How you can use the user lookup tool on GEDmatch,
I've used it a lot in order to help find some information on different people for kits that I am
researching and also to be able to get in contact with other distant cousins when I've lost their
email address for some reason. So if you have a question about what kit is attached to what email,
use the user lookup in GEDmatch. The user lookup for GEDmatch and for the Genesis system works
the exact same way. And they look the exact same. So if you have any questions about how
to use the user lookup system, put it in the comments below, and I'll try to answer it. And
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