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A match is placed on a branch, and you decide
After every match-list import and once an hour the platform looks at each match of your kit and asks which branch of your tree it belongs to. A branch is a real ancestor in your tree, never a label we invent. The evidence is listed in the chip next to the match: a relative's kit that shares the same person, a parent's kit, a cluster edge, or a line label you wrote yourself, each with its weight. Press the small button next to the chip to open the evidence and confirm or reject the branch. Confirming writes the ancestor's surname as a group on that match and freezes the branch; rejecting means the platform never proposes that branch for that match again; you can reopen either. On the ancestor's own page you see how many of your matches point to that line, and the link opens them. Nothing in your tree changes from a decision: the branch is evidence, not a new relationship.
Step-by-step guides
- Get your DNA matches5 steps
- Upload raw DNA4 steps
- Import a large match list5 steps
- Read your matches4 steps
- Sort matches into groups5 steps
- Use AutoClusters4 steps
- Compare shared segments4 steps
- Link a kit to a person4 steps
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