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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: pollycat76 on Saturday 16 December 17 11:08 GMT (UK)
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I tested with familytreedna but recently uploaded my results to My Heritage as a known relative had tested with them and I thought I could compare on which chromosomes we match etc, but I cannot find anywhere on the My Heritage site to do this. Perhaps it is just my dotage, but I would appreciate any help.
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I'm not familiar with the MyHeritage website, but I know if you both upload to gedmatch.com there is a facility to do this.
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Hi
Thanks for your reply, I am on Gedmatch but cannot persuade my known 1st Cousin 1R to do the same. I am somewhat disappointed with My Heritage if you cannot compare matching chromosomes and segments etc, as they are a sister site to FTDNA.
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I am a member of My Heritage and you scroll down any page to the lists at the very bottom of the page in the shaded area. There is a section on DNA and on the list is Upload DNA data. Reading the info it seems to be what you want.
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Again thanks for your help, but I have uploaded my raw data to My Heritage and it has given me my ethnicity and matches, but nowhere can I find anything similar to FMTDNA or Gedmatch results which show the actual chromosomes and segments that match between myself and possible matches.
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1st - 3rd cousin once removed?
DNA Match quality?
1.7% (123.4 cM)
Shared DNA
8
Shared segments
25.6 cM
Largest segment
This is what info you get on My Heritage, this is my closest relative on there. I then can check on his tree for our link - it's my father's maternal line.
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Yes, Medpat that is all I get, but it really does help to be able to see the matching segments, because if several matches show the same segments as myself and this known 1st Cousin 1R then they will be on my father's side as our common ancestors are my paternal gt grandparents. I may have lots of other matches that will show different matching segments which might indicate that they are from my mother's side. It is all very difficult !
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I'm also on GEDmatch and 23andMe, all are different. Unless you convince your cousin to go to GEDmatch I don't know what else you can do.
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I could not believe that was all the information My Heritage gave for your money and thought I was having one of my senior moment turns as I could not find the breakdown of segments etc. I am glad I did not test on My Heritage, I would have been well displeased. I will have to get the thumb screws out for my cousin !! Thanks again.
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Would your relative consider transferring to FamilyTreeDNA? Apparently there's no actual downloading needed for a transfer from MyHeritage to FtDNA - you just fill in some details and it does it all for you. They'll have so many more matches than at MyHeritage.
I asked a cousin to do it one morning and by lunchtime I could see him. Then I added his mother and him to the tree and linked him, and soon afterwards there were many blue paternal matches. He hasn't added a tree yet so isn't using this feature, but if he did the same matches would be red maternal ones for him. I didn't think it was much of a feature when it first came out because at that stage the only close relatives who had tested were maternal AND paternal matches to the kits I was managing but now I'm finding it useful.
They'd have to pay to unlock the chromosome browser, but you'll be able to see the shared chromosomes anyway.
Ideally you'd like them at FtDNA and Gedmatch.
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Thank you Hurworth, that seems like a good suggestion as it would appear not to be too involved for us oldies. I had contacted My Heritage about not being able to see segment matches but have only received this reply today which gives me my answer as to why I could not find the appropriate page. !! --------
"Thank you for contacting us, my apologies for the delay in response.
At the moment it's not possible to see this information, but we will soon offer the option to see which segments you share with your DNA match. "
So fingers crossed I should get there one way or another !