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Has anyone had any success in joining these groups? I've found some distant relatives that connect to my mother's Irish side of the family but nothing groundbreaking. It's connected to Gedmatch and it looks to search everyone in the database against their database. Here is a google doc with all the groups listed. There are new groups all the time and the more add their gedmatch to the groups I think the more helpful it would be to everyone.
I’ve joined a number of genealogy and dna Facebook groups but the locational based dna groups I haven’t found very useful. I guess if you have a lot of dna from one specific area then it might useful but I haven’t gotten anything from them.
I joined three - Ireland, Germany and County Kerry. The people on the German page are helpful with ideas or translations but I have only a few unspecific distant matches. Matches on the other two are only a bit higher but nothing close has turned up. You need a large number of participants to get many matches. They are all based on Gedmatch so I already have these matches. It only serves as a filter.
Agreed that you really need to have a lot of one ethnicity to get a lot of matches in some of these groups. I like how they filter through those that are actually interested in genealogy versus those who did it for the novelty and then left their info out there because it was a fun thing to do for a few weeks. Maybe if more people added their info it would be easier to filter through the gedmatch matches.
Has anyone had any success in joining these groups? I've found some distant relatives that connect to my mother's Irish side of the family but nothing groundbreaking. It's connected to Gedmatch and it looks to search everyone in the database against their database. Here is a google doc with all the groups listed. There are new groups all the time and the more add their gedmatch to the groups I think the more helpful it would be to everyone.
It's only a partial list of the FB groups. It lists the public groups. I'm a member of a few; Hungarian, Irish and a Polish one; none are in the doc you linked to. I personally don't post in public FB groups.
It's only a partial list of the FB groups. It lists the public groups. I'm a member of a few; Hungarian, Irish and a Polish one; none are in the doc you linked to. I personally don't post in public FB groups.
None of the matchbox groups are public since you need to request membership to add yourself to their databases.
None of the matchbox groups are public since you need to request membership to add yourself to their databases.
The doc is called Public groups using the DNA Matchmaker. I've only looked at one, it says it's a closed group. I'm not sure if it was public at one time. If I have time I'll check out a few more to see if they're also closed.
It's a great list though. I'm surprised the groups I'm a member of aren't listed
The doc is called Public groups using the DNA Matchmaker. I've only looked at one, it says it's a closed group. I'm not sure if it was public at one time. If I have time I'll check out a few more to see if they're also closed.
It's a great list though. I'm surprised the groups I'm a member of aren't listed
They are probably publicly searchable but closed to members. Of the groups I have joined they have all required that I fill out a google doc with Gedmatch numbers and my name before even posting.
I'm in a general Irish, a County Kerry, a County Cork, and Scotland. I've had "hits" on all the groups, but we've only been able to figure out the connection once, in the County Kerry group. And as it turned out, I actually already had her in my Ancestry tree anyway, so it wasn't really new information so much as confirming that my tree was accurate. I keep checking in on the others, though, hoping to figure out connections some how, some day.
I didn't know there was one for Germany. Off to find it!
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