HOWTOs are guides to using company websites, 3rd party tool sites, and educational materials that extend the genetic genealogists toolbox. – Rebekah
Chromosome Mapper by Kitty Cooper – First Look
Kitty Cooper has launched her Chromosome Mapper tool page. This useful tool allows you to color code DNA segments you share with cousins once you have determined your common ancestor. This post covers the basics of using it ... Read More
Create a GEDMatch Account
GEDMatch is a 3rd party tool site for autosomal DNA. It allows matching between multiple DNA testing companies. It also has tools that are not found elsewhere ... Read More
Create a Gencove Account
Gencove is a DNA testing service created by Tomaz Berisa, Kaja Wasik, and Joe Pickrell. You can join either by uploading your autosomal DNA results from another testing company (FTDNA, 23andMe, Ancestry, GenesforGood) or by ordering a DNA test from Gencove ... Read More
Create a GenePlaza account
GenePlaza is another microarray upload site. Each of its tools is available as an individual app ... Read More
Download 23andMe Results
Many 3rd party utilities need you to download your results from 23andMe to use them ... Read More
Extracting 23andMe Files
23andMe raw data files are downloaded in the ZIP format. This is how you extract them for use by some 3rd party sites like James Lick's mtDNA page ... Read More
FTDNA Project Member Privacy Settings – Quick Start Guide
This is a quick guide to adjusting your privacy settings for project participation at FamilyTreeDNA. I, personally, take my privacy extremely seriously, and I hope your own seriously too ... Read More
FTDNA Settings – Sharing mtDNA Coding Region Results with Group Administrators
FamilyTreeDNA allows you to set if you wish to share your mtDNA Coding Region results with group project administrators. You set it per project. To share, follow these steps ... Read More
How to request money via PayPal
One sometimes needs to request money from others in the genetic genealogy community. This is simple, as long as you have a PayPal account ... Read More
Installing Goran Runfeldt’s Family Finder Segment Triangulator Chrome Extension
Goran Runfeldt's Family Finder Segment Triangulator is a tool that shows you additional information about your Family Finder (Autosomal DNA) matches and segments they share at FamilyTreeDNA ... Read More
Loved your HOWTOs page and suggest you add a series of screen dumps on how to JOIN A PROJECT in FTDNA. I found it difficult to join but easy once they are on your home page. Also remember to reference readers to the PRIVACY SETTINGS article, as project admin needs to access the data.