People & Search Tools EAP
Overview
The People section is where the matches and trees you have gathered are turned into people and ancestors. It answers three questions: who are my matches, which ancestors do their trees share with each other and with me, and where do they fit.
Available Tools
- People (Gold) — Every tester and DNA match as a person. See what each match shares with each of your kits, open the tree gathered for them, link the kits of one person, and merge duplicates with undo.
- Common Ancestors (Gold) — The ancestors that appear in your matches' trees and in yours.
- Compare Match Trees (Gold) — One combined tree built from the trees of the matches you choose, where you decide which entries are the same person.
- My Trees (Gold) — Load GEDCOM files and say which tree belongs to which kit.
- Kits — Search across all gathered kits by surname, ancestor name, individual name, or tree data. Free.
Gold tools are shown to everyone in the People menu. Opening one without a Gold subscription shows a message saying it is a Gold feature.
What You Need
- Gathered trees. The tree tools work from the trees gathered for your matches. Turn on tree gathering when you gather a kit; the more match trees you have, the more these tools can find.
- Your kits pushed to GDAT, for the People list. People are kept in a GDAT database, which the Client creates for you if you do not have one. See Push to GDAT.
Where Your Data Is Kept
Everything stays on your own computer, in two files:
- Your DNAGedcom database holds what was gathered: matches, shared matches, segments and trees, and the GEDCOM files you load.
- Your GDAT database holds the people: who each tester and match is, which kits belong to one person, the merges you have made, and your decisions about who is the same ancestor. The GDAT program opens the same file.