Can I Upload Data From 23me To Ancestry

In this Upload-Download series, we'll cover each major vendor:

How to download raw data files from the vendor
How to upload raw data files to the vendor, if possible
Other mainstream vendors where you can upload this vendor's files

Please note that downloading your DNA file from whatever vendor does not touch your matching results at that vendor. You are only downloading a copy of your raw DNA file.

Uploading TO 23andMe

This part is piece of cake with 23andMe, because 23andMe doesn't take whatsoever other vendor'due south files. In that location is no ability to upload TO 23andMe. You lot have to examination with 23andMe if you want Dna results from 23andMe.

Downloading FROM 23andMe

In social club to upload your autosomal DNA file to some other testing vendor, or GedMatch, for either matching or ethnicity, you'll need to get-go download the Deoxyribonucleic acid file from 23andMe.

Download Step i

Sign on to your account at 23andMe.

23andMe download

Under your name at the upper right-hand corner of your page, past clicking on the niggling circle with your initials, yous'll meet "Browse Raw Data." Click in that location.

Download Stride two

23andMe download 2

You lot'll run into "Your Raw Data." Click on the blueish download link.

Download Step iii

On the Download Raw Information folio, curlicue down towards the bottom until you see "Request your raw data download."

Click on Submit request.

Download Step four

Yous'll encounter the following bulletin saying an e-mail will be sent to yous.

23andMe download 4

Download Step 5

A few minutes later, an e-mail will make it that says this:

23andMe download 5

Click on the dark-green button in the due east-mail which will take you back to 23andMe to sign in.

Download Footstep vi

After you sign in, you'll see that your download file is ready. Click on "Download Raw Data" and yous will see the following.

23andMe download 6

Your raw data file volition be downloaded to your reckoner where you'll need to store it in a location and by a name that yous can notice.

The file name will be something similar "genome_Roberta_Estes_v2_v3_Full_xxxxxxxx" where the xs is a long number. I would suggest adding the give-and-take 23andMe to the front when you save the file on your system.

Most vendors want an unopened zip file, so if you want to open up your file, first copy it to another name. Otherwise, you'll have to download again.

23andMe DNA File Uploads to Other Vendors

23andMe files tin be in one whatever 1 of four formats:

V2 – the earliest tests taken at 23andMe. V2 test takers were offered an upgrade to V3.
V3 – V3 files beginning December 2010 through December 2013
V4 – V4 files beginning December 2013 through Baronial 2017
V5 – V5 files get-go August 2017 through present, August 2021

The changes in the files due to flake differences sometimes cause bug with uploads to other vendors who utilize other testing chips.

From beneath to >>>>>>>	Family Tree DNA Accepts *	MyHeritage Accepts**	GedMatch Accepts ***	Ancestry Accepts	LivingDNA Accepts ****
23andMe V2	No	Aye	Yes	No	Yes
23andMe V3	Yes	Yes	Yeah	No	Yes
23andMe V4	Yeah	Yes	Yep	No	Yes
23andMe V5	Aye	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

* The upload to Family unit Tree Deoxyribonucleic acid and matching is free, but advanced tools including the chromosome browser and ethnicity crave a one-time $19 unlock fee.

** At MyHeritage, the upload and matching is free, merely advanced tools crave a 1-time $29 unlock fee unless you are a MyHeritage subscriber. Y'all can upload here and try a free subscription here.

*** At GedMatch, matching is gratis, but the more advanced features require a Tier one subscription for $ten per month.

**** LivingDNA accepts files, but they use a different chip and their matching is still a piece of work-in-procedure.

23andMe Testing and Deoxyribonucleic acid File Upload Strategy

My recommendation, if y'all've tested at 23andMe, depending on your test version, is as follows:

V2 – Upgrade which ways retest at 23andMe to newer test version, or simply exam at another vendor
V3, V4, or V5 – Upload to Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage and GedMatch

Pace past Step Upload Instructions

I wrote step-by-footstep upload instructions for:

MyHeritage, click here
Family Tree Deoxyribonucleic acid, click here
Ancestry, click here

Have fun!

Please notation that this article was updated in August 2021.

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