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 Just a quick post here as cousins are asking me what are our resources for Shawnee & Powhatan DNA studies.

First, you need to get your DNA tested, I recommend Ancestry.com because 23 and me has been hacked and sold and... it is all too confusing. I don't like ancestry.com but where ya gonna go?

When you get the test back, then you download your results and you upload to Gedmatch.

How to upload to GEDmatch from AncestryDNA

Now, GEDmatch will give you a code - your "GEDmatch" you will use this to compare your "kit" to others. You want to see where you overlap. You do this in one to one comparison (in the GEDmatch drop down menu)

Then there is a way to see your "paint." Explanation by Sharon Willis Robinson

Do not share anyone else's GEDmatch numbers with anyone else. You can in private Facebook groups but not in any other way. So if you are approved to join a private Facebook group and that other person you overlap to is also in that group you can talk about it. But never anywhere else even in private email with your friends or family. This is just etiquette. It is very hard to keep track of everything so what I do is I have a private folder on Evernote where I keep all my matches, I contact people by Facebook messenger to ask if I can compare matches privately. Then I just don't share anyone's GEDmatch even on private Facebook groups because it is too complicated.

Now, you can join studies and I will get a list of those here or how you find them.

1. Go to GEDmatch "free tools"

2. Click on "Ancestor projects"

3. Search projects you are interested in

4. Request to join

This is just my rough draft and I will be working on this in the next few days...

Catherine dee Auvil 8/9/25

Another list of simple instructions at HughMcKenna.org