Now, let’s consider three vertical panels that occupy the bulk of the main DNA page: Genetic Ancestry, DNA Matches, and DNA Circles.Ĭlick the button. In most cases, Guest is fine, however if the invited person is someone you trust who is helping you with your results (as in an unknown parentage search), you’ll want to make them an Editor.Ĭlick the SEND INVITATION button, then scroll back to the top of the page and click on at the top left to return to the main DNA page. Click it, and on the popup that follows, enter the person’s email address or Ancestry user name into the blank field, and decide whether to make that person a Guest (who can’t make any changes) or an Editor (who can enter comments in the notes fields and change where your DNA results are linked). Click the SETTINGS button again and scroll to the section called “Sharing DNA Results” at the bottom of the page.
One more thing you may want to do in Settings is to invite relatives to see your results. Back on the main DNA page, the text below the ‘Hello’ greeting will now say “Linked to ”. Once the computer has picked up the right person, select the name and click the green button. If not, click “NO”, and you’ll be offered a blank search field into which you can start typing the correct name as it appears in your tree. If they were correct, confirm that’s who you are, and you’ll be taken back to the main DNA page. Sometimes, Ancestry’s computers will have already identified you in the tree based on your name and birth date. (If you only have one tree, there won’t be much of a choice.) On the next page, you will see this a pull-down menu to select a family tree in your account. In the example above, my DNA results are not linked to a tree at all. You will need to scroll down to see all of these settings.įor now, let’s focus on where your DNA is linked (Family Tree Linking). On this page, you can select how often to receive emails from AncestryDNA about new matches (Email Settings), decide how your information is displayed to others (Privacy), link your DNA results to a tree, change the information about yourself, opt in/out of AncestryDNA’s research program, and invite others to see your DNA results. The top half of the page looks like this: This will take you to a page called Test Settings. To link your DNA, click on the rectangular settings button at the top right. (If you haven’t, the screen will say LINK TO TREE below the greeting.
If your focus is traditional genealogy, the first thing you’ll want to do is to link your DNA results to your tree, if you haven’t already. When your DNA results from AncestryDNA finally arrive, you’ll get an email with a link that will take you to a page similar to the one below. Of course, you will see your name, not mine, in the ‘Hello’ greeting at the top. I hope others can benefit from it as well. I wrote this post for my father’s cousin, whose AncestryDNA results just came in.
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