Write Your Life Story With GEDmatch And Ancestry

A perfect complement to Ancestry.

DNA matching made easy.

Take your Ancestry results farther with GEDmatch and get instant access to explore more than 2 million DNA profiles and your DNA match list.
Create your free account to explore more than 1.5 million DNA profiles from GEDmatch.
You’re on the verge of learning more about your DNA than you ever thought possible. Upload your Ancestry DNA results to GEDmatch to match your DNA profiles from other major DNA testing services.

When you upload your DNA to GEDmatch, you have access to a database with over 2 million members and counting. With this powerful website, you can learn more about your ancestral history and connect with other ethnicities. This empowers you get a deeper understanding of what makes you truly unique.
With the click of a button, you'll be able to find others who share similar genetic codes. You may find long-lost relatives or distant cousins that can help fill in the gaps in your family history. Discover unknown family members and learn about your heritage.

Benefits

Discover DNA Relatives

If you test with Ancestry and want to find relatives outside their database, upload your DNA data here and see who else is out there!

SeaRch Possible Relatives

Upload your DNA data here and see if anyone on the platform is related to you. With GEDmatch, you can easily grow your family tree!

Genetic Genealogy

GEDmatch is a genetic genealogy site where DNA matches can find relatives across genealogy projects, such as Ancestry, MyHeritage or FTDNA.

Features

Power Genetics Tool

GEDmatch is a free, public DNA database. It’s a genetic community interested in preserving both biological genealogy and genetic privacy.

Worldwide Connections

GEDmatch has people from around the world who share interests in genealogy and genetics. Some of our users join “Ancestor Projects” – A GEDmatch Ancestor Project is a group of people who are all related to each other in some way and want to find out more about their family history together.

Create a DNA Public Profile

Your profile on GEDmatch can show who you are related to as well as what segments of DNA you share with them or which segments they might share with you.

How to Get Started

Do you have your Ancestry Data?

How to Access Your Raw DNA Data From Ancestry

1 Sign in to your Ancestry® account

Under DNA click on “Your DNA Results Summary”
Go to your settings in the top right corner

2 Download DNA Data

Find section “Test Management” and click “Download DNA Data”
check the box and enter your password

3 Confirm Data Download

Go to your email inbox and click the Ancestry email you just received. Simply select “Confirm Data Download”
Clicking the link takes you to your Ancestry page – select “Download DNA Raw Data”

You will receive a DNA-data-(date).zip file. in your Downloads folder

Upload Your DNA File to GEDmatch

Sign up for free and find genetic matches on GEDmatch. Use it as a research tool or share DNA data with others to find relatives.