Making Discoveries With the New and Improved AncestryDNA Match List | Ancestry
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- Join Crista Cowan for a detailed tour through the New and Improved AncestryDNA Match List. The Barefoot Genealogist will then walk you through her process for working with her DNA matches to make new discoveries about her family history. She will also provide you with some quick tips for keeping track of your new connections.
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32:55 I know that feeling. My grandmother wanted to find her half sister for her entire life. 10 years after she died, I found her 80 year old sister.
I speak to her every week.
First thing I do before I start watching your videos is open a new tab to my ancestry tree and follow along with you. Your tips and tricks help me daily on this journey. You are my research buddy. Great video!
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Last year, I found my great aunt through Ancestry and ordered her an AncestryDNA test. Within a week, she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A couple months went by. Within 2 days after receiving her results, she passed away.
Her mother (my supposed Woodruff great grandmother) was my brick wall, and her results helped me find out her true identity, through triangulation.
the great grandmother had 5 children we didn’t know about and none of her children were biologically her husband’s, and I am not a Woodruff!
First, I would like to say how happy I have been with my Ancestry subscription and especially the AncestryDNA test I purchased in 2013 or 2014.
In 2015 my twin brother took a job in Oklahoma City and a few months later I also moved to the state. We were born in California; however, our biological father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were all born in Oklahoma. Our father passed away in an automobile accident in July 1981. We were 12 years old at the time. So, once moving here, I wanted a copy of his birth certificate to put with all other documents I have that were his. Much to my surprise, when I went to the Department of Health's Vital Records Division and applied for his certificate under the surname he used - Reed - I was told the certificate did not exist. I was able to obtain it because I knew his mother was married, but in the process of divorcing, her second husband who's last name was Osburn.
My father never had a copy of his birth certificate. He used his Cradle Roll Certificate for identification. My AncestryDNA results put me into 32 DNA Circles - several confirming my lineage as a Reed. I requested the Department of Health to correct the record and provided the results; however, they said that they lacked the ability and authority to make the change. They also doubted any judge would change the certificate.
So, I hired a lawyer to write up a petition in Oklahoma County District Court case titled, DAVID LEON OSBURN via FRANK LEE REED Petitioner vs. OKLAHOMA DIVISION OF VITAL RECORDS Respondents Case Number CV-2019-661 filed March 20, 2019. At first, the judge was not going to accept the case because everyone on the certificate were already deceased and she said I would not have standing, and she did not have authority. However, we discovered at least three laws pointing out that any judge in a competent jurisdiction has the authority to change the name on a certificate. The judge set a hearing for April 23, 2019. I used the DNA Circles, which went back 6 generations, and then provided 4 generations of genealogical data for the Osburn line. The evidence being overwhelming in my favor, and without any objections from the State, the judge granted my Petition.
It is a unique - one-of-a-kind - case that would not have been possible without AncestryDNA results. Normally, paternity is not petitioned by someone other than the principles. Additionally, paternity is normally sought by those living. This case, everyone involved were deceased except myself. It was a special day and a testament to the power of the AncestryDNA results and their use in daily life.
Thank You.
Sincerely,
Frank Lee Reed
We're thrilled to hear that you've enjoyed this discussion, Darlene! Please let us know if you have any questions and we'd be happy to address them!
I just love your enthusiasm and clearly explained information. I always get a boost to start up again right away after listening to you. Thank you so much for all your support to all of us.
Wendy Sherbert Same here. She is very helpful!
What really annoys me with DNA matches on Ancestry, is the amount of people that have taken DNA test, but no tree.
Same
Quite a few people do know there heritage and families. My dad didn’t know much and neither did my mom.
Filter to look only at those with public trees.
more DNA videos please I miss the content we used to get every month.. I especially want more videos using thru lines please and thank you. love your videos Crista thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏 I wouldn't even mind older DNA videos being redone and rebooted since the website has changed and improved so much with DNA in the past year.. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE KNOWLEDGE ❤️😊
One minute in and I felt the need to comment on your hair! Lol! I love it. Back to watching... 💁♀️
As always, great info!
This allowed me to break through a brick wall on my husband's side that has driven me crazy for months. I also found a picture of my friend's grandfather, which was a huge find because she had never seen a single picture of him!
Excellent, Crista! I watched it shortly after you published it, and then watched it again this evening after spending a few weeks implementing it. I've been looking for a method of managing DNA matches across several kits, and I love your approach. I also implemented an Excel log and email-based reminders of those I messaged, but your approach is the foundation of it all. Thanks again!
I like your colour coding method! I think I may use something similar myself. I normally make a note detailing which great grandparents line the connection is from. Your method will make filtering the resolved matches a lot simpler. Keep up the good work, Crista!
As of right now, I am creating a descendant list/book of my great-great-great grandparents. There was a book made in 1999 but has become outdated. Luckily it included addresses and phone numbers so it helps a lot. With the DNA match list I have come in contact with 8 cousins. That doesn’t seem like a lot but it is a huge start!
Thanks for demonstrating some of the cool new features and for sharing with us how you apply them in your very own real account. I'm so sorry to hear that you recently lost your grandmother. I love the new features and I'm sure that more updates are on their way. Two things that would be very useful: 1. ability to search not just for matches with notes, but for keywords in those notes. Also 2. Please make a suggestion to make the "test picker" more sticky. When I'm working on my father's matches for example, it keeps defaulting back to my test as I jump from screen to screen. Sometimes I don't realize that the picker unpicked Dad and I have to go back and transfer my notes to his match list.
Great video as always! I love the filter for matches I've messaged - and everything else here. Keep up the amazing work!
Yes, I kept saying I was hoping Ancestry would make it easier to know which side of your family your matches came from. And I like the new information with the DNA evidence. I love it all. I'm not wasting hours on matches I can't figure out.
So glad to hear you say that those with Southern roots may have more DNA matches! This has been my theory for quite some time. With my New England roots back to The Mayflower, I have a mere 37,000 total matches but my son-in-law's mother, with deep Southern roots has 75,000! I see this a lot with other tests too.
I love your Idea about the color coding and implementing it for your matches. I did not do the color coding in the profiles but I surely using the coding for grouping my matches between my mother and paternal grandparents. Now that I know you are the person who is truly behind a lot of the updates with what we can do for DNA. I think a filter that allows us to filter those that we have already seen the profile would be a another good addition for filters. I think it would be good for those that did not yet group their people to find those they may have seen. There are so many more things that i would love to see that gets added. Im sure I will let you and ancestry know of the things I think that could make research even better.
I also like the matches because when I do see a relative that has followed their roots, I often find names of other sources that have become public to search, like a new obscure newspaper that I would never had known about to search obituaries. Or perhaps a name of a high school that a related family member might have gone to and then I was able to find my ancestor in another volume! I also had a brick wall of being adopted by father. I knew my natural father’s name and the matches helped to verify I was on the right track in following my ancestry on his side. Without knowing his family, I was completely in the dark.
Great video and a huge improvement in the DNA Match list! Here's some feedback for the Ancestry team: when I have common ancestor with a match, the two of us are related is the main thing I want to see. It's a shame that it's two clicks away and (IMO) hard to find. I'd much rather see that info when I click on a person, rather than their tree. Also, how cool would it be to see one large family tree with all my matches (with known common ancestor) on it!
I love all the new features, I've been using them since the beta started. Can't live without the new groups feature, and I'm so glad the Notes are showing on every layer of the interface now.
Hi Crista love watching your videos. When I first started I organised with two trees but with the changes being made I am doing a bit of doubling up etc - is there a way to merge two trees on ancestry where it takes all the data/info/gallery/photos etc across?
Thank you so much, you have answered more questions that have solved the puzzles for me.
Wow! I did not know Ancestry automatically privatized everyone listed as living. That info. changes EVERYTHING!!! I need to watch all you videos!
So you code for the 8 ggparents using the names of their parents ie 2nd ggps) so what about DNA matches 'above' that level or am I missing something
Hi Crista, Thanks so much for this great video! I think it would be better if Ancestry had 34 groups for our matches. 32 - one for each of our 3x Gt Grandparents and one each for paternal and maternal unknown matches.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will pass it along to the product managers.
This is great, thank you... And thank you for being so engaging yesterday on my post on Facebook. It helped me to understand a few questions I had.
You are so welcome!
I didn't know much about dad's side of the family and discovered quite a bit that he never talked about. I didn't expect to uncover new information about my mom's ancestry, but I was surprised yet again. I assumed I knew most of her history, but discovered how wrong I was.
I just found your videos, thank you for your clearly explained information on how to use the DNA. I was at a lost how to use it let alone add it to my family tree. Although I have done research for years
its been a lost how to connect all the information and make a tree up. I will be watching a lot more of your videos !
My mom found out a few years ago when she was 60 years old that her dad was not in fact her biological father. My grandma died many years ago and is not here anymore to ask her who my mom's real father is. The reason I sent my DNA to ancestry is so that maybe I can find relatives that will lead us to answers about who her real father is.
I had similar situation at age 64. Found my dna XY match and couple half siblings which don’t want to know 🤣 that their dad had an illegitimate child.
@@dkorwood I finally did the work to find my mom's real dad through our matches, etc. Turns out that visually, I am the identical twin of my Great Grandmother on my mom's paternal side lol. Pretty cool. Unfortunately there aren't many close relatives of my mom's bio dad for me to get into contact with. He had one other son who has already passed away without having children and that's it. 😔
Really great to have these new tools explained and means Ill put them properly to use !
Loved this presentation! For the first time I viewed this on my iPad and had my laptop up, so I could listen and interact so to speak! Main question I have is where can I find the missing little blue line that indicated whether a match has responded to a message from me? I used to see "2 messages " or something? As you know the messaging area is very unreliable on search for sent or search for messages. So that is not a good option for looking to see if a match ever responded and quickly seeing the response! Miss that area, please bring it back!
Fantastic Crista! Well informative and well presented
Thank you!
Thanks - great video. I share all your reasons for working with DNA matches. You got me motivated to try using your new DNA groups, but unfortunately I encountered some glitches. On the matches page in the Groups dropdown menu AND in the "add to group" dropdown menu, the "create custom group" is not clickable. However, when I access the more detailed match comparison page, the "create custom group link does work" and the pop up window appears. BUT when I click the "back" button to return to the match page, the groups I had just assigned to a match were no longer showing. So I had to reassign the appropriate existing groups to that individual. THEN, when trying to edit any of the existing groups on either page to tweak my colour choices, I couldn't access the edit window (edit link didn't work). I have already deactivated ad block utilities for the ancestry.ca site (where I have a full World Deluxe subscription as well as my DNA kit results). Any thoughts on why I can't fully access these features? Frustrating.
I'm a newish member and loving your videos. You showed a surname list that you compiled for DNA cousins on your match list. Is there a chance that you could point me to the video it was on. Thanks!
Hello Crista. Thank you so much for another wonderful session of learning thru with your video. I appreicate all the help you gave me on the FB group Ancestry, sorting, helping, venting etc and I want to say that today's video has open need doors of working thru my matches. I do have one question. As you know the spelling of last names from home country to north america can be a horrific challenge for some of us. My two most difficult languages are with Ukrainian and Sicilian spellings of last names. So what do you suggest I insert into my family tree? Here's an example. Sicilian/American Spelling of " Rizza". Yet went I've had the marriage, birth and death certificates translated, the last name is spelled "Rizzo". Now there is a Rizza Family in Sicily...and yes maybe back a century they were one family. So what should be inputted in Last Name? Now one last question, this time about names from France. My research shows that "titles" were given to distinguish the families from one village to anothr and from one generation to another. Currently I'm putting these titles in "Suffix" but then in my tree it displays more of the Suffix than Last Name. Now do you a video on "How to insert last names and/or titles? So for lengthy questions. But again, big thank you. You really know how to save our santity ---- Cynthia.
I look forward to the videos that you create. I have needed a clear understanding of this new tool. Thanks for your user friendly approach.
HI Crista I am wondering if the notes section in the DNA matching remains private for those living or if that information can be seen by anyone?
I'm not seeing the Beta option on my DNA matches page. Also I have Groups, Filters and Search as the drop down tabs on the top left not All Matches, Add A Filter and Search like you have on your screen. What am I doing wrong?
Love your videos! I hope ancestry will allow us to add more custom groups because I've done used all the allotted amount already and need more.
Having the darndest time figuring out how you added the emojis to the Suffix field. Did you do a Google search and find them or did you insert them from a right click of the mouse in the Suffix field, then select Emoji (that may be something I have added to Chrome, not sure). The right click method works on some colors but not others - for example, I cannot get red to show. Maybe this is similar to the problem you had with Indigo. Curious to know.
Thank you for the tutorial! I hope to get the chance to implement your ideas for groups within my tree(s).
Thank you for a great presentation. I would love to have a keyword search on the notes I've made. I haven't used the notes quite as you have. It would help me tremendously. Thanks!
Hi Krista,
I appreciate the information you give, it’s so helpful since I haven’t been on this site for 20 years. A lot has changed!
About how the site works, I have a question. I have someone in my working tree that has been attached to her mother and to her step mother. I would like to remove the record from her stepmother. I have their relationship tagged as step. Since the record was on both, I merged the record thinking that would fix the problem, but no! Is there a fix? Thanks Shelley.
Great video presentation. Will share with others.
For a time in the beta, the message button on DNA matches was missing, so you actually needed to have a sub to send one. It looks like it was fixed within the past week or two.
How do I turn on Beta? I see it is on (green) on my profile, but when I go to the DNA Matches page I do not see it.
We're happy to hear it, Rita. Please let us know if there is anything else that we can help you with. Good luck with your research.
Please help. How did you get hearts to C & P to the Suffix in their profiles? I've haven't been able to get any to paste. Even after images were saved.
They're not images, but emojis. I used emojipedia.org to find mine.
I have some very deep southern roots, I guess. So I have over 113,000 matches as of now. My husband, however, has a lot of New England roots and he has a little over 60,000. Fascinating!! And some really big families! I am still sorting through my "known" matches four or five years later, rofl. Oh, by the way, you are distant cousins with my husband through the Huber/Hoover line. I found that a while back. :)
This video was very helpful in showing me how to work through my DNA matches. I have lots of matches to work through! I am also helping my sister--in-law to try and find her biological parents. This has been more difficult than I realized. She has a few close cousin matches but only 1(has 538 cM across 26 segments) has a linked tree with less than 100 people in the tree. Trying to figure out where to start with my sister-in-law's DNA matches and how to work through them to hopefully find her biological parents. Not sure if these matches are on father or mother's side. She does have her potential father's name and her half sister on her father's side has DNA tested but is not showing up in her DNA matches so now I'm wondering if she has incorrect information about her potential biological father. Any advice on where to start or what to do with DNA matches for an adoptee?
I love your color coding with the number and dash and then the name, I can keep the families together!
I don't see the option on the DNA dropdown to see the last viewed test? Is that going away?
Thank you for your help. I live in Puerto Rico and going thru their records a nightmare. I was looking for my 6th great grandfather Hipolito Fonseca 1765 - 1819 who died in Toa Alta, PR. I called the church and request death certificate, but was informed that the record was badly damage. I believe he came from the Iberian Penninsula but how can i get passport info if it was burned in Ellis Island. Because of that i don't have parents name. Another thing is that in the census they put everyone is from Puerto Rico and not even from what town their from. It makes my journey very difficult. How can i get info on my Great grandparent, is there a legible copy some where i can get? Thank you for your answer.
I decided to go back one more generation with the hearts, to my daughter's great-great grandparents. I couldn't find a couple of the colors you found in hearts, so I substituted a white heart. I just repeated the hearts on my husband's side and my side, but then when selecting the 16 colors from the 24 was a little bit challenging. I couldn't follow the rainbow twice for all 16 people, but I did the best I could.
Thanks for this suggestion.
Hi Crista. Is there any way to reset your coloured dots please? I went through and tagged all my matches with colour dots / custom groups, and realise your way is simpler. I'd like to wipe them all and start again. Or do I have to do this individually please?
DON'T wipe them out yet! Create your 8 new family groups even if they are not the colors you ultimately want. Then filter for each of your original groups and assign them to their new group. Do this with each of your original groups before deleting the old group. That way you can still use filtering to bring up each group to assign a new group. Hope this makes sense to you.
I have been searching for my Grandfather for nearly 40 years. My Father never knew his Father but there were some likely people it could have been. I took the DNA test and this past year I began to see people popping up in one persons line and I have found the elusive Father not in the lst cousin but 4th but it comes back directly to the man I had always thought it was. Thankyou..
That's amazing to hear! Thank you for taking the time to share this discovery with us, we hope you have a great day.
Hi Crista Why don't I have the lines which state "All Matches", "Close matches", "Distant matches", "New matches", "Shared matches with Father/Mother" on the grouping tag?
I missed how you create the two lists--one for your dad and one for your mom. Mine all turned out on the same list. So the numbers of matches are all lumped together. Please explain for us. Thanks!
Brick walls, with time, just disappear. Then I found my great grandmother who had been hiding for 6 years. Somebody found her but I can't imagine how and to know who found this info would be interesting!
Really enjoyed this video and have learnt quite a bit from it. Is there a video on how to create groups?
In your shared matches ..did you set the percentage at 20%..?..because I have some at 8cm..under my shared matches..tab..
when I go to add hearts to my tree I cut and paste but all the colors keep coming out red on my tree....what am I doing wrong...tried different emojis but nothing is working ...can you give me the site you used for colored hearts....
Love the new tools!
I love the groups! I've been using them like clustering
SO happy I found this channel, I am looking for my father as I've found out (at the age of 61) through DNA that my dad is not my BF. I watched up to, so far, the part where you say to make sure your DNA is attached to your tree. I did do that, but since then I started a tree that I am only putting DNA matches on. The tree I have it matched to right now is my Maternal line but I don't want to see matches there right now (there's a lot as mom was one of 13 children and her parents were from a large family ....), I'd just like to see my paternal matches until I get this figured out. The siblings I grew up with thinking were full siblings are actually half siblings so I can figure out pretty quickly if a match is Paternal or Maternal but I am wondering if I should attach it to my new DNA tree? Can it be on both?
Your DNA can only be attached to one tree at a time. Having all of your Ancestry on one tree can actually help you sort out your matches easier and faster.
If you are using the colored groups to sort out your maternal and paternal matches using the Shared Matches with your siblings, you can use the GROUPS and FILTERS to show only paternal matches when you want to see them.
This video and another has made me look closer to my Matches. Finding my bio father's line and confirming it, you certainly have helped me look in this direction. Thanks
That's awesome, Ramona! It's great that you are having success with your family history research.
great info, I may have to watch again... and do like Judy m go to ancestry and follow along. I'll be back.. Are you in SLC at the FHL ????
Hi Crista! I have watched this video plus so many of your others. Thank you for doing these! I just want to clarify a few things. When you select your person to have a colored dot, do you give all of the shared matches that same dot? Then if so if that person has multiple colors does that mean our shared matches get all of those colors or only the one color that you assigned originally?
When working with my own matches, I actually don't assign anyone a colored dot until I have figured out who they are and exactly how they fit into my family tree. Then, they get the dot (or dots) that represent the great-grandparent of mine I am related to them through.
The only time I assign dots to shared matches is if I am working on match list for someone who is looking for a biological parent or grandparent. It's an easy way to quickly sort matches to work with them in groups.
I'm watching this almost two years after it was put here on RUclips. I've been an Ancestry member for more years than I can remember, and the format, to the best of my memory, has never changed. The new features you talk about in this video are not showing up on my Ancestry page. I've tried to discern why not, but the only help I've found was an article suggesting to clear caches and temporary folders, which I've done. Any advice for me on how to get the new and improved Ancestry?
Hi MizJBH - Have you taken the AncestryDNA test? If so, when you go to view your AncestryDNA Match List, what do you see?
With DNA matches, I was able to eventually find and confirm who my biological grandfather's family was, even though my mother and I never knew him. I had 1 3rd cousin match and it took me a long while to find the attachment - but once I had that connection, I was able to connect other DNA matches that were 6th/7th cousins. Still trying to find his paternal DNA matches as all the ones I have found so far are his maternal family. :-)
A lot of the people who don’t have trees attached are adoptees. We don’t have that information and sometimes we don’t want to be intrusive or expose any secrets the bio family may have, so some may use initials for the purpose of protecting both sides.
For the shared matches with mother or father does it pick up all of them or does it stop at 4th cousin like the shared matches?
I love love love the map feature!
Hello Chista, I love your you tube channel. When I first became a member of ancestry, I created to many trees. Most of the trees contains the same relatives because on my parent's trees I created parental and maternal for each parent...How can I combine my trees into just two trees, one for my mom and one for my dad (like you did) Is it safer to to this manually so I won't lose what I have discovered so far?
When is the new DNA going to be on the website. It has been a year and I do not have it.
The filter that actually helped me to finally break through a brick wall was the "regions" option. I really hope you bring that back. Please add that to the filter. I turned off beta for that reason
Yes, I agree scribegirl :-)
As I has three areas of research Ireland, Portugal, and 1632 Great Migration of New England.
With the regions option I have been able to separate by regions rather than the frustration of opening and closing matches to find they are from another region entirely.
I have a window open to follow along with how you are color coding. My issue is I have a separate tree for my paternal tree. I don't see how to color code in my tree. I see how its done with matches, but not in my tree. I see a tag option, but not a color option. I also don't know my maternal grandmothers family. My ancestors also changed their name, some female ancestors had several married surnames.
Great information. Very, very useful.
Hi, Debby. We're so glad you joined us today. We're happy to hear that you enjoyed it!
The DNA matches have been a HUGE help to me in building out my Family Tree! In trying to find my Meehan ancestors in Ireland. Starting many years ago with a death certificate from New York that listed my Great grandparents' parents, I checked John Grenham for places that had the two last names in common. I kind of settled on County Leitrim and almost immediately found a baptismal record from 1845 with all three names! Then in talking with a couple of Irish genealogists and specialists, I was warned not to make that jump. I was even told that name wasn't common in Leitrim when there are Meehans everywhere! Well, ten years later, I am now not only sure of Leitrim but am in close contact with about six "DNA cousins" who are all from the exact parish and, in some cases, the same townland as my ancestors! DNA for the win!
Plus, on completely different sides of the family and through DNA matches, I have made contact with and actually met in person a second cousin and a FIRST cousin who I knew nothing about! They are both adopted and are thrilled to be a part of our quirky but fun family!
Thanks, Crista, for all you do!
Thank you so much for sharing the amazing journey you have been on, Anne. We're thrilled that you have managed to make so many incredible connections through our DNA test and building your family tree. Congratulations! We wish you continued success in your research. 😊
CRISTA ~ All this info is so interesting... I've been trying to do research for many years and sure I have hit some road blocks... I'm going to be 70 this month and just about all of my family has passed on but going through photo albums led me to scratching my head... OK my hair LOL... I thought I knew who my family was but I have always been blond and I have yet to find even one ancestor ( many many generation back ) that doesn't have dark hair...... Sure I know hair color skips generations and it doesn't mean my father isn't my father. But the the question still makes the hair on the back of my blond head stand on end.... So I thought taking the DNA would narrow the ethnicity or country ( as I know what countries my parents came from ) As far as I know - none of my family members never took a DNA test - but just recently sent in my test kit... It hasn't been processed yet... So sitting here anxiously ~ nervously awaiting if I will find surprises or not...
I just got a kit as a gift I went to activate my kits but it said I needed an account so I tried to get the free one but it said it's only free for 14 days so my question is am I gonna have to pay to see my DNA results? The help option on the website was no help
Thank you for helping to understand all this a little better. One question: If you make notes for a match, are they only viewable to the one who made them or are they public for all to see?
Just you
Can you explain why I would want to ‘hide’ a match? Is that something you would do if you have put them in your tree or something?
Thanks for doing this video! I was at RootsTech this year and I was so excited when these features were announced that I didn't take very good notes. FYI my adopted son has 91,600+ DNA matches - keep the videos coming!!!
You’ve broken the feature for iPad 9.7” users, the “apply” button for filtering is now off the bottom of the visible screen, please reverse the CSS change, or add specific 9.7”, 10.5”, 12.9” rules.
I have a question. How do you rename a group once it has been created? I created a group but I want to change the name of the group. I have tried to click on the group but am unable to change the name.
How do you find a match for someone that say they match with me but I don’t see them. Is it possible they match with one of the other test takers I am maintaining? The test takers are family.
So glad I viewed this, I used to have many individual family names color coded. I've changed to your suggestion of using the Great - Grandparent family names only and deleted the individual , so much clearer my old group old system was muddled a mish-mosh
Hi, Kimberlee. Thanks for posting your comment. We're so excited that you've been able to find some helpful information in Crista's RUclips video. It's important that your tree is clear and easy to read. We're so happy that this improved things on your tree.
Looking forward to this, I hope you guys give ethnic Egyptians their own category
You look great Crista!
Does anyone know how to correct by DNA match of my half brother? It lists him as my 1st cousin.
I am writing regarding the new "DNA Matches" they are a good improvement over what was on Ancestry's site. I would like to know/ask if there is a way to sort the "DNA Matches" by the Maternal side of the DNA tree, as I am trying (in vain) to discover my mother DNA Ancestral line. I have tons of data on my father's line going back to my 30th Great Grandparent Ancestral/Genealogical tree. Any help would be appreciated.
Hello Crista,
I'm an advanced Ancestry user, my DNA matches with a shared common ancestor went back to the 6th and 7th generations. Unfortunately, these were removed by Ancestry in the latest update. What does an advanced user do when they have already moved past the 5th generations? How can I retreive my shared 6 and 7 shared common ancestors? Any information would be greatly appreciated!
Cool video loved it
I’m trying to find information on my maternal grandfather, can’t find anything lol
I have looking for anything about my grandfathers family . He has the most omen name in the world. what do I do please any help I sure could use. I even tryed calling CSX railroad. for old pay stubs
Not realizing that the DNA section did not show living folks, I listed all of my family by their initials for their privacy. Now I would like to put their full names on their DNA tests. Is there a way to change from initials to full names? Thank you!!
The common ancestors help me be able to see other tree's through thru lines so i can find other relatives i needed on my tree its great.
Just ran across this video. I love your hair. I've watched many of your videos and have seen many hair styles. You look so pretty with this straight style. Love your videos too.
Thank you, Patricia. That's kind.