Could someone direct me to information on entering DNA info? Not sure what is wanted for description and markers.
Think twice about using the RM7 DNA fact type. It’s not carried over as is to RM8/9 which now have a very conventional event “DNA Test”. I don’t know what happens to all the fields of data in the RM7 fact type; maybe it gets put into the Note on upgrade? It is also somewhat trapped inside the RM7 database; there was no standard for data interchange.
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For about 10 years I have experimented with various means of adding DNA family matches to my main tree.
I have way too many matches in my 8 family kits from Ancestry to use the approach in RM11, but I have been trying to add family information of individual lines using Ancestry’s ThruLines to the match and our family’s common ancestors. This is a bit tricky because not all the lines are correct, but I have made quite a number of useful connections with this approach.
I have used DNA information in a couple different ways in RM7 which will transfer in gedcom files. First I have a free form SOURCE called DNA match on Ancestry. When I put in ancestral lines from the person with the common ancestor, I use that source with the contributor and cM values in the field usually used for page numbers as a source for the fist two or three generation marriages. I probably should have also made a common ancestor entry too, but I have not yet begun to do that.
I have also created some new FACTS which let me add matches from mine and my siblings common ancestor matches to the common ancestors. I put in the description the identifying name on the matching DNA kit and the relationship to myself or sibs in the description field. My latest instance of a new fact is DNA Common Ancestor. I only have it print in individual reports. Its description is: [person]>[Desc] ><had a DNA match to MAS[Date]>. MAS in this example refers to myself and for date I use the year I entered the match. Since I use the exact name for the kit with the matches, I can go back into Ancestry and revisit that person’s tree and/or contact them should I have questions later on. Of course that assumes the information has not been removed.
The third way I use DNA in RM7 is to summarize DNA indicators for proof of generation links in the general note for a person where there are questions about parentage and vital record links are missing.