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For hints and tips on how to use your mtdna results, read this entire section.
To compare your results with others in the project, view the colorized chart on the Cody Project webpage. Results are grouped by haplogroup for easy comparison. If you are a project member, those who you match within the project will be also be listed among your matches on your personal page.
It’s important to use all of the tools that Family Tree DNA makes available to us for free.
Hopefully, when you match another person in the project, you’ll contact them and exchange info, but what if they don’t answer or their e-mail address has gone stale? This is why it’s so important to upload your Gedcom to your personal page web site. It’s easy to do. Go to your personal results page. The tabs on the left will include one that says GEDCOM. Assuming that you have exported your data from whatever genealogy program that you use in Gedcom format, you will need to use the instructions provided to locate that file, and upload it. Only you, the group administrator, and people who match your DNA will be able to see your Gedcom. This is a wonderful way to be sure that even if you are unavailable to provide your information, it is available for others with whom you match.
Visit your Preferences page by clicking on the tab at the left and be sure to update your most distant ancestor at the bottom of the page. The field is small, but try put as many of your last names you can fit. This field is set to show on the project web site since the current last name of the participant is generally irrelevant to genealogy, it’s important to include this ancestral information. Be sure to click update at the bottom of the page when you’re finished.
To compare your results with others in the project, view the colorized chart on the Cody Project webpage. Results are grouped by haplogroup for easy comparison. If you are a project member, those who you match within the project will be also be listed among your matches on your personal page.
It’s important to use all of the tools that Family Tree DNA makes available to us for free.
Hopefully, when you match another person in the project, you’ll contact them and exchange info, but what if they don’t answer or their e-mail address has gone stale? This is why it’s so important to upload your Gedcom to your personal page web site. It’s easy to do. Go to your personal results page. The tabs on the left will include one that says GEDCOM. Assuming that you have exported your data from whatever genealogy program that you use in Gedcom format, you will need to use the instructions provided to locate that file, and upload it. Only you, the group administrator, and people who match your DNA will be able to see your Gedcom. This is a wonderful way to be sure that even if you are unavailable to provide your information, it is available for others with whom you match.
Visit your Preferences page by clicking on the tab at the left and be sure to update your most distant ancestor at the bottom of the page. The field is small, but try put as many of your last names you can fit. This field is set to show on the project web site since the current last name of the participant is generally irrelevant to genealogy, it’s important to include this ancestral information. Be sure to click update at the bottom of the page when you’re finished.
In addition, be sure to upload your information to mitoSearch (www.mitosearch.org), a free public data base provided by Family Tree DNA for all people to enter their data for comparison purposes no matter which company they tested with. You may find matches with people in this data base who tested with companies other than Family Tree DNA. To upload your data to mitoSearch, go to your mtdna Matches orange tab. On that page in the box that says “Additional Possibilities for Searching Matches”, the last line in that box says “click here to upload to mitoSearch”. Your results are automatically uploaded for you and then all you have to do is to create your user, then search for genetic matches.