My Trees Gold EAP

Overview

My Trees is where you bring your own family trees into the Client and say which tree belongs to which DNA kit. A tree assigned to a kit is that kit's reference tree: Common Ancestors uses it to find which of your ancestors appear in your matches' trees.

The page lists two kinds of tree together: the GEDCOM files you have loaded, and the trees gathered for your kits from the testing companies. It is in the Client under People > My Trees and is a Gold feature.

Loading a GEDCOM

1. Export a GEDCOM file (.ged or .gedcom) from your genealogy program or web site.
2. Click Upload GEDCOM(s)… and choose the file. You can choose several at once.
3. Each file becomes its own tree, named after the file. A green line under the buttons reports what was imported, and names any file that was skipped and why.

The Client reads names, birth and death dates and places, sex, and who is whose parent. It remembers where each file came from, which is what makes refreshing possible.

The Tree List

Column	What it shows
(tick box)	Whether the tree is included when you click Compare Selected. Every tree starts ticked.
Source	GEDCOM for a file you loaded, or the testing company for a kit's gathered trees.
Tree Name	The file name of a GEDCOM, or the kit's name and company.
Main Person	For a GEDCOM: the person the tree is centred on, with their birth year.
Data	How many people a GEDCOM holds, or how many match trees and people were gathered for a kit.
Assigned To	For a GEDCOM: a kit it is assigned to. For a kit: the tree assigned to it.
Uploaded	When a GEDCOM was loaded.
(buttons)	Update… and Delete, on GEDCOM rows.

Filter by Source narrows the list to GEDCOM, A*, FTDNA or MyHeritage trees.

Assigning a Tree to a Kit

Assign your own tree to each of your kits, so the Client knows whose ancestors are whose.

1. Click the tree's row in the list to select it.
2. Under Assign Tree to Kit(s), tick the kit or kits the tree belongs to. A tree that covers several family members can be assigned to each of their kits.
3. Click Assign Selected Tree.

You can also right-click a tree's name and choose Assign tree to kit… to pick one kit from a list.

To take an assignment away, select the row and click Remove Assignment. The tick boxes are only for making a new assignment; they do not show what is already assigned. Look in the Assigned To column for that.

Keeping a Tree Up to Date

When your tree changes, export it again and bring the new version in over the old one. Do not load it as a new tree: updating keeps the kit assignments and the links you have made between people in the tree and your DNA matches.

• Update… on a tree's row — choose the newer export of that same tree. The Client reports how many people were new, updated, or no longer in the file.
• Refresh All GEDCOMs — re-reads every GEDCOM from the place it was last loaded from. Handy if you always export to the same file name. A tree whose file has moved or is missing is skipped and named in the result.

Viewing a Tree

Double-click a GEDCOM row, or right-click its name and choose View tree. The tree viewer shows ancestors in four layouts:

• List — an expandable list of ancestors.
• Horizontal — a pedigree chart with ancestors spreading to the right.
• Vertical — a pedigree chart with ancestors stacked upward.
• Fan — a half-circle fan chart.

Use − and +, or hold Ctrl and turn the scroll wheel, to zoom between 20% and 400%; 100% resets it. Boxes are blue for men and pink for women. The viewer shows ancestors only, not spouses, siblings or descendants.

Linking a Person in Your Tree to a DNA Match

When you know that one of your matches is a particular person in your tree, say so: right-click the tree's name, choose Assign a person to a match…, pick the person in the tree, then pick the match. That person then appears in People with the match attached, and the tree tools place the match at the right spot in your tree.

Comparing Trees

Tick two or more trees, choose a Match Level, and click Compare Selected to open them together in Compare Match Trees.

Match Level	How names are compared
Level 1 — Exact Name	Names must match exactly. Most precise, but misses spelling differences.
Level 2 — First Name (Recommended)	Surname and first name must match; middle names are ignored.
Level 3 — Initial Only	Surname and first initial must match. Finds the most, including some that are wrong.

Deleting a Tree

Delete on a GEDCOM row removes that tree from the Client.

Related Pages

• Common Ancestors — uses the tree assigned to a kit.
• Compare Match Trees — several trees as one.
• People — the people your trees and matches are.