One of the problems that people have often said about GEDMatch
is that it's difficult to use and to understand and it looks
really dated and that's because the people who created GEDMATCH
were focused on making sure that the tools were helpful for
genealogy research and they weren't really so concerned
about the look of the website. Well, since that time,
GEDmatch was bought by Verigen and they have gone through and done
a cosmetic update of the website so it looks much better
and there's also some new fun functionalities and information
you can find on the website. Today, let's go through the new
GEDmatch website. Now, first thing you're going to notice
when you look at this website is that hey, it's not the drab
gray that I'm used to. There's actually color on there.
There's pictures on here and that is a major positive for
people who have been surfing the web for the last 10 years.
We like the new modern website. You scroll down, you can before
you even sign in now, click on some different information to
help you understand what GEDmatch is, what some of the tool
that they offer are as well. First thing I want to point out
down at the bottom. For all you GEDMatch users. If you have a
problem if you are needing some help then please email the
support at GEDMatch.com email that you'll find at the bottom
of the screen. This is to report problems with some of
the tools. There are some different little bugs that
people have found and many of those have been corrected but
there's probably still a lot that needs to be identified as
well. If you have, you know, questions about your payments
or anything like that for tier 1, Email support and they will
get back with you. So, going back to the top, there is
actually two GEDMatch websites using the same thing. There is
this new website and there is the old website and you can
sign in to either one. When you click on the login, it ask you,
hey, do you want to sign into the new one or do you want to
sign into the classic one? Now, I point out because as you're
using the new website, if you come across a tool where some
information is missing or there's a bug with it,
something's just not working, you can always sign in to the
classic website, the old website and be able to use the
tools from there that haven't changed with this new design.
So, I'm going to sign in to the new website. Now, once I've
signed into the new website, you'll probably notice that
some of the layout looks similar to what it had before.
We have the welcome to us. We have the messages that GEDmatch
is telling us and then we get down to our profile, our kits,
and on the right hand side, we have the different tools that
can be used but there are some differences with this new
website. First off, up in the top left-hand corner, we click
on this, then, there are some of the tools that we want with
quick links as well as a link back to the homepage. So,
whenever you're on any of these GEDMATCH pages and you see
those three bars up in the left-hand corner, can easily
get back to the homepage or you can upload your DNA or get to
one of these other tools quickly. In the message right
now but not always there is a new link to the education.GEDmatch.com
page where you can actually find some resources
about different tools and using GEDmatch. Again, that's
education.GEDmatch.com and yeah, you actually going to see
me in several of these but it's not just videos from Family
History Fanatics. There are other blogs from Jared Smith
from Kitty Cooper as well as others and they divided this up
into beginner section they also have an intermediate section
and then they have a couple of advanced sections for some of
the more advanced tools so if you're just starting off in
GEDmatch and you're wanting to know where does it begin then
start here in the education the beginner section you can watch
these watch these videos read these blogs get an idea of some
of the things that you can do with the GEDmatch website. So
next, let's go down and take a look at the profile section.
Now, the profile section has your name, your Email address.
It also tells you how many people are online on the
GEDmatch website right now. If you're doing this in the middle
of the night, it might be just a few. If you're doing this
during the day, you might have quite a bit. Um if you are at a
genealogy conference where they're teaching a GEDmatch
class in a lab and there's 70 or 80 people in the lab, then,
70 or 80 of those people are logged in to GEDmatch and you
might actually have several hundred people on the GEDmatch
website at that time. If you ever want to edit your profile
information. Now, this is your profile not your DNA. If you
want to edit that, you can always click on the view edit.
There is the option to have your name to have an alias. If
you need to chain your Email password then that information
is available. If you want to manage any tag groups, this is
a place that you can manage those tag groups and finally,
if you want to delete everything on your account, you
can go to the profile registration deletion and you
can delete everything with one click. You just need to enter
your password and click on the authenticate and then you will
delete everything. Let's go back the homepage. Back on the
homepage on the right hand side, we have the tools. The
first set is information and this is, hey, we want to look
up a user or we're looking at their terms of service. There's
the link to the new education page on that as well and there
is the support request. So, instead of Emailing, you can
always fill out the support request and it's going to send
that Email to the GEDmatch people as well. They can start
troubleshooting whatever your problem is. Now, besides the
education page, there's also how to use GEDmatch and in
this, there is some video links, there's some blog links,
not just stuff that's on the education page but other stuff
as well that can help you understand a little bit more
about some of the different ways that you can use GEDmatch
and what some of that information means. So, all this
is available to you in that information box of tools on the
right hand side. As we scroll down the page, we have the
upload your DNA. Again, the is where you would upload the DNA.
This is going to be the same thing from that menu bar, the
upload DNA. So, you have a couple of different ways that
you can quickly get to that when you have a new kit that
you want to upload. Now, going back over to our profile
section. We're going to have our DNA resources and so this
is all of our kits that we have uploaded as well as any family
trees that we have uploaded as well. Now, you can upload
multiple kit on your account as well as create new kits with
some of the tier 1 tools. So you may just have one kit
listed here. You may have dozens and dozens of kits list
here depending on what you use GEDmatch for. In the free
tools you'll notice the free tools from the old GEDmatch as
well. You have your one to many, your one to one, the XDNA
1 to one, your ad mixture, the people who match both are one
of two kits, the DNA fob diagnostic utility, are your
parents related, 3D chromosome browser, the archaic DNA
matches, and ancestor projects. Those are all free tools to
anybody who registers on GEDmatch. They don't cost
anything. You can use them all the time. If you want to
upgrade your membership to a tier 1. There will be a link to
join tier 1 and as you can see right here, there are more
tools for tier one users. Some of these tool are enhanced
versions of the free tools and some of these tools are
completely separate from the free tools that help do many of
our DNA analysis in a different way finally as we go down we
have the family trees we can upload a GEDcom file for our
family tree and we have the tools for GEDcom searches. Now
these tools for GEDcom searches are free also. So not only do
you get the free tools when you sign but you also get the
GEDcom tools as well. Another thing you may notice now with
each page is there is a way to contact GEDmatch which goes to
their submittal form, their request submittal form. While
you are using GEDmatch, again, with the new website, if you
come across any errors, any information that's not showing
up, something that's not the same as what you remember from
the old tools, you can always sign in to to check to see if
what it was was working right in the classic and then go back
to the new GEDmatch and make sure you submit a trouble
ticket for any of those issues and that's a quick overview of
the GEDmatch website. Now, over the next few months, I
will be doing updates to many of the videos on how to use
some of the tools to show it with the new website but for
right now, a lot of the information is the same. The
check boxes might be in different places layout might
be a little bit different so go ahead and start using the new
GEDmatch website and see how it can help you with your
genealogy research now if you'd like to learn about the order
that I recommend beginners use tools then check out this video
up here but if you want to learn something else about DNA
then check out this video down below now if you'd like to
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