Tutorial
Learn CanopyLink in an afternoon
One-minute walkthroughs show the newest features, and two longer videos cover the platform and GEDCOM import.
One-minute walkthroughs
Short, narrated tours of the newest features, each recorded in a demo project.
Color Match Lines
Color a DNA match's line up through the tree and see the shared ancestor marked where two lines meet.
Candidate reports
Make a PDF drawn around your candidate, with matches numbered instead of named and the common ancestors marked.
Match lines on the Project Map
See where your matches' families lived, with pins colored by match line and a key that filters to one line.
Timelines and dated sources
Follow a person's life in order, with dated sources slotted in and events of your own added.
The Sources page
Find any record in your project by searching titles and notes, or by picking a type.
Import a match list
Turn a CSV of DNA matches into anchors in one go, with their shared cM and who is working on each.
Possible-duplicate warning
Get a heads-up when someone you are adding may already be in your project, and copy them in instead.
Unmerge a match
Move a merged-in match back to an anchor of their own, keeping copies of the shared ancestors in both trees.
Full-length tutorials
New to CanopyLink? Start with a tour of the whole platform, then see how to bring in a tree you already have.
Getting started
A general overview of CanopyLink and how to navigate the platform.
Importing a GEDCOM
How to bring an existing tree into CanopyLink.
- 1 Kits & identifiers
- 2 DNA & candidate
- 3 Pinned resources
Where to find Case Details
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Open a project. Case Details is the first tab, alongside Node Detection and Project Map.
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Click Edit to fill in case and kit numbers, testing lab, NamUs record, the candidate profile and DNA haplogroups.
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Press Save Case Details. It shows on the project home, read-only for shared viewers and encrypted at rest.
Case Details comes with every project. Start free
- 1 Open Report
- 2 Pick people
- 3 Get your PDF
How to build a Tree Report
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Open a tree and click the Report button in the toolbar.
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Click each person you want in the report. A counter tracks how many you've selected.
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Press Done and your PDF downloads: a tree diagram of the people you picked, then their details.
Tree Reports are available on every paid plan. Compare plans
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