How to upload your DNA data to GEDmatch:

            1.     Go to the Ancestry DNA home page. There is a button marked settings, open it             and click on ”Download your DNA”

2.     Ancestry will send you an email confirming your request. When you get it,       open it and confirm your request.

3.     Go back to your DNA settings page, and click on Download your DNA.  It will be downloaded to your computer (your download files), as a zip flie. Leave it as a zip file.

4.     Go to GEDmatch.com, register, and you will be sent to the GEDmatch home page. One of the options, the light blue box on the right is “File uploads”.

5.     Click on the Ancestry option. This takes you to another page, where you add some info such as name, screenname or alias, and gender.

6.     The last part on this page is “Click on browse..” this takes you back to your computer so you can click on your DNA file in your download files.

7.     Then click the other button,  “Upload”.

8.     Leave GEdmatch running for 10-30 minutes while it does what it has to do. You don’t have to do anything during this time, and its pretty boring, so I suggest get up and get some coffee or water or something,

9.     When they say “Completed”, that’s (almost) it!! They assign you a Kit#, which you need to keep somewhere.

10.    You can use the “one-to-one” kit comparison at this point, but the best stuff comes from the “one-to-many” option, which you  need to wait a day or two to do.