I hope you’re not getting tired of my daily questions!
I’m watching Bruce’s video on DNA Matches in RM10. He mentions you can add a match not currently in your tree. Great.
But how do you add them if you don’t know their name? For example, kmcn1 is the match name.
Usually you have initials of person or you could say “Dau of J.S.” if that is all you know.
There are many ways – try to be consistent and do what makes sense to you would be my advise
I have no idea of the relationship, and no further info is on the DNA match.
I add exactly what the match name is on the DNA Test. I also put all DNA Matches into a group as I add them. Those in a single tree are color coded gray.
I have mine in a group called DNA Matches (I only have one tree), and they’re also color coded (yellow).
So in my example, a DNA match is kmcn1… you would enter that as what… the surname?
you could do surname or kmcn1 or both
When the DNA match doesn’t have a tree for me to guess a surname I just entered the match name as their given name.
Thanks for clarifying, I’ll take that approach.
If by chance an email address is provided for the match, it is sometimes possible to determine more of the person’s actual name (GEDmatch gives emails).
thanks. I think I’m going to focus on rebuilding my tree since I’m entering it all manually versus gedcom, then I’ll get back to DNA and rethink this. Seems like if I enter them without knowing who they are, I might be creating double work for myself.
What I am currently doing.
First Name: “Screen Name” is kmcn1
Surname Name: Source is DNA-Ancestry, or DNA-MyHeritage, and so on.
On that’s a great idea thanks! PS… fellow bread baker 
How do you “know” the source of the information since screen names can vary quite a bit over the multiple sources offering DNA matching?
I don’t know where some of them fit into my tree yet. They are just free floating trees.
let me rephrase. How do you know WHERE you found the “Screen Name:
Many people (for the record, not me) use a different screen name for different services - i.e. they may have one screen name on Ancestry, another for MyHeritage and so on.
I look on the providers DNA matches for me and the name they are using there. I wouldn’t know they are not the same person if they use a different name on another site, so they could be listed more than once in my database. The DNA Matches in RM lets me add the provider, like Ancestry.
thank you for explaining
