Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain Blog

If you have uploaded your DNA test results to the free GEDmatch site (https://www.gedmatch.com), and included your direct ancestors as a GEDCOM file, you can take advantage of a new feature that is available if you pay $10 dollars to upgrade to Tier 1 membership. This utility searches the closest DNA matches with GEDCOM trees and compares their trees with yours. If it finds a MRCA (Most Recent Common Ancestor), it reports it in a table.  This is the description you will see when you enter your kit number: This program compares a family tree of the primary kit with the family trees of all of the closest DNA matches that also have family trees. It uses a pretty generous matching algorithm, so please don't take these findings as absolutely proven. It is very possible that this program will, in some cases, wrongly identify common ancestors. So PLEASE do a little bit of follow-up investigation to confirm the findings before accepting them as correct. Hopefully, in time, we will reduce...