GEDmatch Education

Below you will find a curated list of educational content for both new and experienced users of GEDmatch. We will update this page with new content as it becomes available.

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GEDmatch Beginner

What is GEDmatch? How Does it Help Genetic Genealogists?

GEDmatch for Beginners: The Best Order to Use The Tools

Are Your Parents Related?

One to Many Matching: GEDmatch Tools

How to Use One-to-One Comparison

User Lookup Tool EXPLAINED

How to Transfer to Other Genealogy Websites

What is DNA Overlap on GEDmatch?

GEDmatch Intermediate

Upgrading your One-to-Many Matching with Tier 1

Chromosome and Segment Tools for Multiple Kit Analysis

An Overview of DNA Comparison Matrices in Multiple Kit Analysis

GEDmatch Tag Groups - Tricks for Multiple Kit Analysis

Searching for Segments on GEDmatch

How to Compare Family Trees on GEDmatch

Find Most Recent Common Ancestor using GEDCOMs

GEDmatch Advanced - Part 1

Clustering Kits

What is a DNA Triangulation with a Crossmatch on GEDmatch?

How to Triangulate your Matches

Creating a DNA Superkit from Multiple DNA Kits

The Lazarus Tool: How to Bring DNA Back from the Dead

GEDmatch Advanced - Part 2

How Phasing Improves GEDmatch DNA Match Results

Visual Phasing Part 1 - Setup

Visual Phasing Part 2 - Create Segments Based on Sibling Shared DNA

Visual Phasing Part 3 - Assigning Segment Matches to Grandparents

Visual Phasing Part 4 - Reconciling Matches

Visual Phasing with a Twist - Segment Phasing (Part 1)

Visual Phasing with a Twist - Segment Phasing (Part 2): Advanced Genetic Genealogy

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