Are You Related to Ancient Humans? Find Out With GEDMatch

In this video, explore the GEDmatch tool that helps you reveal how much DNA you may share with Archaic Humans and Extinct Human Species.

WARNING: This video is for the super geeky genetic genealogists.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction
00:59Intro to the archaic human genome match tool
02:49 Inputs to GEDmatch tool
02:57 Upper Segment Threshold Limits
05:55 Looking at migration patterns of modern Europe
09:55 Native American Ancestry
11:10 Kennewick man
12:19 One-to-Many Comparisons

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[LifeAbudantly]

Amazing! Thank you for your time and connections in bringing us this Data and Research. I agree that more researchers should extract information from ancient artifacts to help us understand the travels of our ancient ancestors. Blessings! USA

[mariacapaldi]

I'm not a DNA Geek but I loved this video!🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬🧬

[WolfRoss]

I've been using Gedmatch for a long time. I became frustrated with the testing companies that use current population to compare to people alive now in the US. Using the Archaic DNA it matches my paper-trail perfectly. I just set it on.07 and the lines pop out. Especially since the Swiss ancestor was added. I would like to see more research Clovis child because I match him as much as the European DNA.

[shipcritic]

Is GEDmatch the only site offering matches with ancient people? Your videos are fascinating

[konstantins]

I hate to rain on anybody's parade but if you are mostly of Germanic decent, this is most likely where your Clovis matches come from, especially if your ancestors haven't been living in the US for over 150 years. I am German and Bulgarian (from Germany) and I have one of the highest Clovis matches among European kits that I have seen so far; I certainly do not have any Native American ancestry. My Bulgarian one-to-many matches hardly score any Clovis, probably because they are more Middle Eastern-shifted, so a Protobulgar connection can be ruled out as the source.

I would say about 25% of all Germans that I have checked so far get Clovis matches at 2 cm, while all the Finnish kits I have seen match Clovis. Similarly, Uzbeks also match with Clovis. It is probably simply indicative of ANE ancestry that is shared by most peoples who originated around the Ural mountains or in the Eurasian steppe.

[nblaise]

Thank you for your excellent videos! I have a question about my ancient matches. I share one larger 3.5 cM segment with the Clovis boy and many smaller (less than 2 cM) segments. I also have many small matches (less than 3 cM) with Ust-Ishim. The largest match is 8.5 cM with the Hungarian NE1. Does that mean that I'm somehow connected to those people or is it just error? Thank you!

[selinaBARMAR]

Thank you for this video, good timing! My ancient DNA data is showing being linked to the Kennewick man and I do so on my DNA have some Native American with 23andMe, and three more companies. I see that my longest chain is 43.49cM, and shortest is 24.4cM. So I think this is a possibility.

[andreav]

I’m definitely related to RISE 493 which is sooo cool.

[SiameseCatsever]

Hey, you also had Clovis at 3 Cm, didn't you? Happy New Year!

[ahfez]

I'm a native of north Borneo an island in southeast Asia, and I'm so surprised to see that I have a common DNA with several ancient people who lived in Ireland, Georgia, Switzerland, and 4% percent of my DNA is from the Baltic region, and another 4% from east Mediterranean, somewhere around Israel.

[katjasita]

One of my matches on BR2 Hungary is 8cm long. Does that mean, there is a correlatin for sure?

[deeryan]

6.12.23 I found this particular tool to be very interesting for me, definitely showed matches, albeit small cM, to populations that I did not expect to see. Did not expect to see 'Native American' hits in my past. Makes me even more curious!

[inca]

I’m black American and I surprisingly had no archaic African dna matches, just European, Russian, Brazilian, and Kennewick USA. What does this mean?

[lizdavenport]

Before Gedmatch changed/updated their archaic DNA samples, I kept noticing how my match to the Ust-Ishim Siberian sample seemed to be pretty significant. Now that that sample appears to be gone from the Archaic DNA portion of Gedmatch, I have compared one of my kits (A742089) with the Ust-Ishim kit (F999935) at a cM level of 3, and get a result of of 28.3 cMs (!!!). Is that possible? I mean, there it is, but am I misinterpreting something? I'm so glad you made this video, as I have wanted to ask this question for such a long time. Thank you for any info!

[GlaucoASOliveira]

Weird. I am from Brazil and I and my main DNA matches were with Ballynahatty and Rathlin, Ireland. I guess that is because the North of the Iberic Penisula was Celtic for many years.

[blt_uk]

I have a 9CM shared segment with one of the Oakingham early Anglo Saxons. And a 7cm segment shared with Ballynahatty

[weejackrussell]

I was, at first, only interested by modern DNA links but when I did my Ancient DNA I was amazed and fascinated. I have found it is significant to the modern DNA too. I thought I was entirely European, I am in the UK, - I do have a lot of Ancient DNA from UK, Ireland and other parts of Europe but I have several types of Indigenous American from both N and S America, this tallies with the fact that I have a large number of Indigenous American DNA matches, who, after years of doing my DNA, I have linked many with specific common ancestors. I also tie in with the Headless Gladiators from York and the Ancient Woman from Ireland as well as Rathlin man. The Ice man from the Italian border is another. These are just a few of the Ancient roots that showed up.

[Hrisut]

Interesante, thanks for your video. I did not understand the heat orange map this helped.

[Cryptnan]

I get extremely similar results to your grandfather at 2 cM yet I'm of Greek ancestry. NE1 Hungary 7.2ky, BR2 Hungary3.2 ky, LBK Stuttgard 7ky, Loschbour Lux 8ky, all have the same amount of of common ancestry as your grandfather and were my best results. I get some smatterings elsewhere as well and surprisingly a little bit of Irish at 3.2ky and 2ky. Could it be that most Europeans would get similar results because the accuracy at that level of cM isn't that great? Either that or these fellas were the Don Juans of their time.

[thonnaf]

I matched both examples you gave that's pretty cool.❤ NE1 well hello cousin 🤗