Upload your DNA to MyHeritage, pay the unlock fee & gain access to a super-useful tool...
SEEING HOW SHARED MATCHES MATCH ONE ANOTHER
Have you tested at MyHeritage or uploaded your raw DNA there? If not it might be worth paying the unlock fee to use a super useful tool that Ancestry hasn’t got. My mother and her two siblings have all tested at Ancestry. Due to marriages, none of them share the same surname as their username. Their matches can see they are closely related because I have included a tree – but our match lists are not always that clear. For instance, imagine you have a match called Bob and shared matches Dot, Chris and Sam. Dot and Chris could be Bob’s daughters, Sam could be Bob’s sister – but there is no tree. On MyHeritage, however, we can actually see how shared matches’ match one another!
The unlock fee is £35; if you have tested direct with MyHeritage you don't need to pay this.
HOW TO FIND OUT HOW YOUR MATCHES ARE RELATED TO EACH ANOTHER!
Step 1
Here I have a new match Ruth who has no tree but is well worth exploring based on the amount of shared DNA.
When reviewing a match, you'll see details of their tree on their profile summary, looking like the example (see left). If there are surnames or places that appear in both your and their trees, these will be provided.
Step 2
I click on the match and scroll down until find our shared matches.
I can see that both Natasha and Lisa share high amounts of DNA with Ruth (842.3 cM and 724.4 cM respectively) and MyHeritage have given a predicted relationship for Ruth and Natasha, and Ruth and Lisa.
Step 3
Both Lisa and Natasha have trees and I have already worked out how they are related to me. Knowing this I use traditional research and
