From now through October 6th, you can upload your DNA file from Ancestry, FamilyTreeDNA’s Family Finder, or 23andMe and receive all of the MyHeritage DNA tools for free, forever.
Normally, the unlock for advanced tools costs $29.
This limited-time offer ONLY pertains to new uploads, not files already uploaded to MyHeritage. This is better than a sale, it’s free.
MyHeritage has a garden of great features, but three exceptional reasons to upload your DNA file now are:
- More European matches – they have the best European database
- Great way to leverage your 23andMe DNA files, given what’s going on over there
- Their genealogy tools, aside from DNA
Everyone receives DNA matching for free at MyHeritage, but if you upload your DNA file this week, the advanced features are free too:
- Ethnicity Estimates including Genetic Groups
- Chromosome browser with triangulation
- AutoClusters
- Theories of Family Relativity
AutoClusters and Theories of Family Relativity are my personal favorites. I utilize a very easy 4-step process.
Step 1 – I use Theories of Family Relativity to see potential trees of how another match and I might be related.
Step 2 – I use AutoClusters to determine who else might fall into that same relationship group.
Step 3 – I use triangulation, that little purple button, below, to see if the people in the AutoCluster share a common segment of DNA. Of course, I can then compare them and others from the autocluster in the chromosome browser.
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Step 4 – I follow that with Shared DNA Matches to view an estimate of how one of my matches is related to another DNA match.
The Shared Matches feature displays the estimate of how they are related to me, on the left, and how they are related to my match, on the right, along with how much DNA is shared. By the way, this isn’t new – it’s been there all along.
Using these combined tools, I can connect lots of dots together and not wander around aimlessly in my matches.
Upload Your Tree, Too
To reap the maximum benefit, be sure to upload your tree for free, too.
MyHeritage uses trees to connect you with others in Theories of Family Relativity who share common ancestors, and also to provide information in the DNA match summary, above, provided for every match.
Without trees, MyHeritage can’t provide important information such as Ancestral Surnames and Ancestral Places, plus maps. Clicking on “Review DNA Match” shows hints, maps, and a whole lot more.
OK, it’s time to get started.
Upload Instructions
I wrote articles about how to download files from all vendors.
- 23andMe Step by Step Guide: How to Upload-Download DNA Files
- Family Tree DNA Step by Step Guide: How to Upload-Download DNA Files
- Ancestry Step by Step Guide: How to Upload-Download DNA Files
Click here to upload your DNA file to MyHeritage.
I hope you make lots of new discoveries!
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- FamilyTreeDNA – Y, mitochondrial and autosomal DNA testing
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Genealogy Products and Services
- MyHeritage Subscription with Free Trial
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- Legacy Family Tree Software – Genealogy software for your computer
- OldNews – Old Newspapers with links to save to MyHeritage trees
- Newspapers.com – Search newspapers for your ancestors
- NewspaperArchive – Search different newspapers for your ancestors
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- DNA for Native American Genealogy – by Roberta Estes, for those ordering the e-book from anyplace, or paperback within the United States
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- The Complete Guide to FamilyTreeDNA – Y-DNA, Mitochondrial, Autosomal and X-DNA
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- American Ancestors – Wonderful selection of genealogy books
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It also would have been nice if they would finally fix their issues with false positive segments.
I have made a huge mess of four separate dna people. My husband, first cousin, my brother and me!
Do you mean you think you mixed them up?
Would anybody be able to advise about all the kits that I have previously uploaded? I have let me subscription with them lapse and will only be maintaining a free account. Should I delete all previous uploads and re-upload? Thanks!
They should be fine.
I registered and uploaded my DNA (from Ancestry) to MyHeritage as soon as I saw this post. I also generated a GEDCOM from my Ancestry tree (about 5000 people) and uploaded it to MyHeritage. I’m pretty sure that my DNA is connected to the right place in my tree in MyHeritage, because I’m seeing hints with my DNA matches about shared ancestral names and places. However, I am not seeing a single Theory of Family Relativity (which was the main reason for the entire exercise).
What might I have done wrong?
They run that periodically. Don’t worry about it yet.
I have a odd question. I have a 102cm match split across 3 blocks with the largest being 60cm. The extremely strange thing is she appears to be a 6th cousin thrice removed. She also does not appear to have any other connection to by tree. Is it possible for a 6C3R to be 102cm?
It’s very unlikely. My suggestion is for both if you to upload your raw DNA file to FamilyTreeDNA and see if you match there on the same amount. Imputation may have “added” to the cMs.
I have a huge branch of 5th – 6th cousins who test similarly. But the longest shared segment is about 95 cM on Chr 13. Many of these matches to me and others that they match are for one long segment anywhere from 25 to over 90 cM long at this same location on Chr 13. These matches are all descendents along several lines of our common ancestors Elijah Stevens and his wife Rebeccah Flick. They are my 5h Great Grandparents.
Hi Roberta, I hope you’re doing well. One frustration I’m having is THEORY OF RELATIVITY … so I find an error that routes the theory in the wrong direction, I contact the tree owner (unless it’s a deleted tree) and ask them to fix. I receive confirmation, and the theory is STILL wrong showing the old version of the person’s tree. I bugged this one poor lady to death about “fixing” her tree only to realize that her newest version of her tree is GOOD but the THEORY isn’t! I’ve emailed them about using “deleted trees” and the response was lacking. (I even sent screen shots!) … Bobbie I know if it was you, you’d find a way to explain it to them that this tool isn’t working right. Any suggestions my friend? I spend way too much time trying to figure these out.