One thing that I did to help me discover more potential matches (and hopefully fill in unknown gaps in my family tree) was to upload my raw DNA data from Ancestry.com to
gedmatch.com. The reason is because gedmatch will match you to people that took their DNA test at other companies. For example, I can see matches to my DNA that tested with
23andme.com or
Family Tree DNA and so on.
To download your raw DNA data from Ancestry.com, here's what you do:
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| Login to dna.ancestry.com. Select the settings button on the right side of the page (see the red arrow above). |
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| On the right side of the page, select the dark gray button to download your raw data. |
And that's it. You will receive an email from
Ancestry that has a link in it. When you receive the email, save the
file and remember where you saved it. This is what you will send or
upload to other vendors for processing (should you choose to do so).
...until next time
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