Directions for Uploading to Gedmatch From Ancestry

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In this Upload-Download Serial, we'll cover each major vendor:

How to download raw information files from the vendor
How to upload raw data files to the vendor, if possible
Other mainstream vendors where you lot can upload this vendor's files

Uploading TO Ancestry

This part is like shooting fish in a barrel with Ancestry because Beginnings doesn't take whatever other vendor'south files. There is no ability to upload TO Ancestry. You have to test with Ancestry if you want DNA results from Ancestry.

Downloading FROM Ancestry

In club to upload your Ancestry autosomal DNA file to another testing vendor, or GedMatch, for either matching or ethnicity, yous'll need to first download the file from Beginnings. This doesn't in any way affect your Dna matches at Ancestry. You're merely downloading a re-create of the raw data file.

Stride 1

Step 2

Click on the Settings gear, at the far upper right-manus corner of the summary folio, just beneath your Beginnings user ID.

Footstep 3

Coil way to the lesser and click on the link for "Download Raw DNA Information."

Step 4

Enter your password and click on "I Understand," after reading of class.

And so click "Ostend."

Stride 5

Beginnings will ship an electronic mail to the email address where yous are registered with Ancestry. Check your inbox for that e-mail.

Waiting…waiting.

However waiting…

If the e-mail doesn't arrive shortly, check your spam folder. If you've changed electronic mail addresses, check to be sure your new one is registered with Ancestry. That's on the same Settings page. If all else fails, request the eastward-postal service again.

Footstep 6

Ahhh, it's finally here.

Click on the green "Confirm Data Download" and do not close the window.

Footstep 7

Next, click on the light-green "Download Dna Data."

Yous'll see the following confirmation screen forth with the downloaded file at the bottom.

Pace 8

At the bottom of the page, higher up, if you're on a PC, you'll see the proper name of the zipped file.

The file name will exist "dna-information-2021-07-31" where the date is the date you downloaded the file. I would suggest calculation the word Ancestry to the front when y'all salvage the file on your system.

Near vendors want an unopened goose egg file, so if you want to open your file, starting time copy it to some other proper name. Otherwise, you'll accept to download again.

That's it, you're done!

Ancestry DNA File Uploads to Other Vendors

Ancestry testing falls into two unlike categories. V1 tests taken before May of 2016 and V2, the current version as of August 2021 which includes tests taken after May 2016. Tests processed during May 2016 could be either version. However, the major vendors accept both files, so the version no longer matters.

The difference between V1 and V2 files is that Beginnings inverse the chips they use to test and dissimilar DNA positions are tested, resulting in a file of a unlike format.

Not all vendors take uploads, but you tin upload your Ancestry Dna file, as follows:

From below to >>>>>>>>>>>	Family unit Tree DNA Accepts **	MyHeritage Accepts***	23andMe Accepts*	GedMatch Accepts
Beginnings V1 and V2	Yep	Yes	No	Yeah

*Annotation that 23andMe in 2018 allowed a onetime upload from Ancestry, only people who uploaded results did non receive matches from 23andMe. You need to test at 23andMe.

**Note that the upload to Family Tree Dna and matching is free, but advanced tools including the chromosome browser and ethnicity require a $19 unlock fee. That fee is less expensive than retesting.

***MyHeritage provides free matching and basic tools. You'll demand either a $29 unlock or a full subscription to utilise all of the MyHeritage advanced DNA and genealogy tools. You lot tin upload your Deoxyribonucleic acid file here, and try the subscription for complimentary, here.

Testing and Upload Strategy

My recommendation, if you test at Ancestry, is to upload your DNA file to MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA, and GedMatch.

I wrote pace-by-stride upload instructions for:

MyHeritage, click here
Family unit Tree DNA, click hither
Ancestry, click hither

Have fun!

Please note that this article was updated in Baronial 2021.

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Cheers so much.

DNA Purchases and Free Uploads

FamilyTreeDNA – Y, mitochondrial and autosomal DNA testing
MyHeritage Deoxyribonucleic acid – Autosomal DNA test
MyHeritage Gratuitous DNA file upload – Upload your Deoxyribonucleic acid file from other vendors free
AncestryDNA – Autosomal Deoxyribonucleic acid test
23andMe Ancestry – Autosomal DNA merely, no Health
23andMe Ancestry Plus Health

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MyHeritage Subscription with Gratis Trial
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Charting Companion – Charts and Reports to use with your genealogy software or FamilySearch
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Newspapers.com – Search newspapers for your ancestors

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