Network Pattern Checker

After you've split your network into leftovers, this checks the pattern before you submit your worksheet to your coach.

First, find your Checkpoint 1 results

Enter the same email you used at the BKM Validator. We'll pull up your target ancestor and confirmed Best Known Matches automatically.

Your email address

We don't have a Checkpoint 1 record for that email. Double-check the address, or complete Checkpoint 1 first.

Filter panel

Family tree

Your leftovers

Step 1 — Your filter / groups panel

Open the Filters → Groups panel on Ancestry so all your label names, colors, and match counts are visible, and the network you're checking is the one selected. Upload that single screenshot.

Example image — provided by Your DNA Guide

The Ancestry Filters panel, Groups section expanded, showing your label names with colored dots and counts. One label checked = the network you're researching.

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Choose your filter panel screenshot

Choose a file, drag one here, or paste with ⌘V / Ctrl+V

Step 2 — Your family tree

Upload a screenshot of your family tree (pedigree view) showing the surnames in each branch out to your 2× great-grandparents. This lets us match your surname labels to the right branch and confirm your research target.

Example image — provided by Your DNA Guide

A pedigree chart with the DNA tester on the left and four generations of ancestors to the right, surname pairs readable at the far-right column.

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Choose your family tree screenshot

Choose a file, drag one here, or paste with ⌘V / Ctrl+V

Your leftover label

Think about the label pattern your leftover matches should have. Most of the time, your leftovers will have just one label — the one for the network you're researching. Type that label's name exactly as it appears in your filter panel.

Your leftover label

Here's how we read your network

Check this over before you look at your matches. Below is each of your network labels matched to the ancestral couple it represents, then the dot pattern we'll be looking for.

Show the tree screenshot I uploaded

Now look at your matches

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Reading your screenshots and checking the pattern…

Network Pattern Checker

You've already completed this step

First, find your Checkpoint 1 results

Before we begin

Step 1 — Your filter / groups panel

Step 2 — Your family tree

Your leftover label

Here's how we read your network

What looks wrong?

Now look at your matches

All set?