DGBrowser Help
DGBrowser is a capture browser from DNAGedcom. It looks and works like an ordinary
web browser — but while you browse your DNA testing sites and view your matches, it quietly
records the match data those pages load into a DNAGedcom database on your own computer.
No copying and pasting, no separate gathering step: just browse, and your data is captured.
From there, you can sync the captured kits into GDAT 4 for
clustering, chromosome mapping, and ancestor research.
Your data stays local. Everything DGBrowser captures is written to a
database file on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to DNAGedcom or anywhere else.
Supported sites
DGBrowser recognizes match data from:
- MyHeritage
- 23andMe
- FamilyTreeDNA
- A*
- GEDmatch
- Genomelink
- LivingDNA
Each site can be switched on or off individually in Settings….
Start here
1. Install & update
Download DGBrowser for macOS, Windows, or Linux
and get it running.
Install DGBrowser
2. Getting started
Sign in to a testing site, browse your matches, and
let DGBrowser do the rest.
Getting started
3. Sync to GDAT
Move your captured kits into a GDAT 4 database for
analysis.
Sync to GDAT
The DGBrowser window at a glance
- The toolbar has the usual Back / Forward / Reload buttons, an address bar with a
Go button, and three feature buttons:
URL List… (visit a list of pages
automatically), Sync to GDAT…, and
Settings….
- Tabs sit above the page, just like a normal browser: click + for a
new tab, ✕ to close one. Sites that open pop-up windows (some sign-in flows do)
open them as new tabs.
- The status bar along the bottom shows which database DGBrowser is writing to and
what the app is doing.
Capture is automatic and silent. There is nothing to start or stop
— if a supported site is enabled in Settings, browsing its match pages records the data. To see
what has been captured so far, open
Sync to GDAT…, which lists every
captured kit.