A free 2-week course included with every subscription — from installing the Client to seeing your DNA matches organized into family clusters.
Eight short lessons, each one a 10–20 minute hands-on task. Work through them in order, at your own pace. Your progress is saved in this browser.
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Start Lesson 1 Continue the course Join live office hoursInstall the Client on your computer, log in, and put your database somewhere safe — the five-minute setup that prevents the most common problems later.
Open lessonDownload your closest DNA matches into your own database in about 15 minutes. This is the moment DNAGedcom starts working for you.
Open lessonOpen the Matches tool, sort and filter your new match list, and find your data files on disk. Your matches, your computer, your rules.
Open lessonRun a second gather pass to add shared-match relationships, family trees, and chromosome segments — the data that powers clustering.
Open lessonThe “aha” moment: one click turns a wall of match names into colored family groups, each pointing at a branch of your tree.
Open lessonWhat a cluster actually tells you, and the cluster → shared matches → hypothesis workflow genealogists use to break through brick walls.
Open lessonAdd a second testing service, try Shared Clustering and the Chromosome Matrix, and lower your cM threshold to reach more distant cousins.
Open lessonThe Warthen Interactive Cluster — your match list as an explorable family map — plus a preview of the tree tools coming to Gold.
Open lessonJoin free DNAGedcom office hours — Wednesdays at 8:00 pm US Eastern on Zoom: a live walkthrough of these same lessons with time for your questions.
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