GEDCOM DNA Finder App Store rankings

Track GEDCOM DNA Finder App Store rankings across 40+ countries. by ADAM JOSEPH KESSEL • 0.0★ (0 ratings) • Lifestyle

Description

This tool provides useful ways to explore a GEDCOM file exported from services like Ancestry, MyHeritage, Geni, and Family Tree Maker: * Find the closest DNA-flagged person to any other person in a family tree * Show multiple paths between any two people in your tree * Search your tree for variations on names and filter on other information like geographical locations * Rapidly explore names and connections in your tree The problem this solves Many genealogists working with autosomal DNA add unfamiliar people to their family tree based on DNA matches and then build out those people's lines, hoping to find the most recent common ancestor between the match and themselves. After accumulating thousands of these speculative additions, you often end up looking at a person in your tree and thinking: why is this person here? which DNA match did this branch come from? Ancestry, Family Tree Maker, and standard GEDCOM viewers can show you a flat list of everyone you've tagged as a DNA match, but none of them will, given an arbitrary person in the tree, walk outward through the relationship graph and tell you the nearest tagged relative. That is the main purpose of this tool. As an added bonus, you can use this tool to find multiple paths between any two people in your tree and also view individual records from your tree. If you set a person as the "Home Person" using the "Set Home" button, the results will include the path from the selected person to the Home Person in addition to the closest people with DNA match markers. Finally, if you have a large tree, you may find it difficult to search for specific individuals in tools like Ancestry or Family Tree Maker. Ancestry only searches on the person's "main name" and not any of the alternate names, and neither service allows fuzzy matching searches. Ancestry also does not allow you to easily search on multiple fields, like name and location. With this tool, you can search for a name with fuzzy matching (e.g. "John Smith" in the "Find:" box) and then further limit the results by a term that appears anywhere in the person's record (e.g. "Chicago" in the "Filter" box).