Genealogy Research and Education
This is Part 1 of an in-depth guide to Ancestry DNA. We aim to take you from beginner to advanced use of Ancestry’s features. The series of tutorials will help you understand and master topics including: Ensuring you have an effective tree on Ancestry Making the most of your Ancestry DNA Matches Understanding DNA to … Read more In-Depth Guide to Ancestry – Part 1 : The Essential Tree
[As of June 2020, Pedigree Thief no longer downloads from Ancestry.] Pedigree Thief is a free chrome extension that will download your DNA matches and shared matches from Ancestry and MyHeritage. The application is built for other purposes and does other things, but this review focuses entirely on the Ancestry download feature. What else does … Read more Pedigree Thief – Downloading Ancestry Matches
Are you wondering how to download your matches and shared matches from Ancestry? This article compares and contrasts differing tools to download Ancestry matches. [Update 16 June 2020: Ancestry has stopped third party tools from downloading matches. The tools described here will continue to work with other DNA sites where specified.] DNA Match Manager from … Read more A Comparison of Tools to Download Ancestry Matches
What is the DNAGedcom Client? The DNAGedcom Client is a desktop application that will download your DNA match information from several DNA test sites. The application includes many other features than the download, but this review focuses on the download for AncestryDNA. [Update 16 June 2020: Ancestry has stopped third party tools from downloading matches. … Read more DNAGedcom Client – A Review with AncestryDNA
This was supposed to be a product review of the Ancestry Match Downloader chrome extension. Unfortunately it’s not downloading matches currently. Judging by the reviews and support comments, it stopped working sometime in January 2020. “worked fine on first try about 3 weeks ago but now no longer functions. Wont scan or anything.” Jan 2020 … Read more Ancestry Match Downloader status on 21 Feb 2020
This was supposed to be a product review of using the AncestryDNA Helper chrome extension to download matches. It’s turned into a bit of a detective hunt instead. The big reveal: the extension has been discontinued by the developer. Read on for more… This extension is still on the Chrome Store At time of writing, … Read more Whatever happened to the AncestryDNA Helper?
As of June 2020, this software seems to be no longer available. The links to the company website are not working. I will leave the post in place for the time being, in case the website becomes available again. The DNA Match Manager from Heirloom Software is a free desktop application that downloads your matches … Read more DNA Match Manager from Heirloom – Product Review
This post is a gentle introduction to the concept of representing your DNA matches as network graphs. What is a Network Graph? Graphs are often explained using Facebook as an example, as most of us are familiar with this social network. Here is a small network graph of my Facebook friends. I’m not in the … Read more DNA Matches as Network Graphs – An Introduction
Ancestry shared matches are those that you have in common with another match. This is sometimes referred to as ICW, an abbreviation of “In Common With”. Users of AncestryDNA can see shared matches by clicking on a particular Dna Match and looking at the Shared tab. It’s important to know that the list on the … Read more Ancestry Shared Matches
In July 2018 I posted detailed instructions on how to count Ancestry Matches. This was after an update to the Ancestry website had “taken away” a simple display count at the top of the match list page. That old post is now invalid. Ancestry has recently rolled out a few new filters at the top … Read more How to count Ancestry Matches