Ancestry’s Create and Manage Trees page lists every one of your trees, but once you have more than a handful, finding the right one means scrolling and reading. Search Ancestry Family Trees by Name adds a search box to the top of the page that jumps to a tree as you type its name, and the same list of trees is available from Quick Search on any page.
Quick Search can jump to record collections, DNA tests and people across genealogy sites, but out of the box it does not know about the people in your own Ancestry family trees, and any list you build goes stale the moment you edit the tree. Index Ancestry Family Tree in Quick Search adds every person in a tree to Quick Search and then keeps that list current on...
If you manage several Ancestry DNA tests across your family, switching between them means going back to the DNA Settings page and clicking through to the right test every time. Index DNA Tests in Quick Search keeps a list of every DNA test on your account so you can jump straight to any of them from the Quick Search prompt.
Working out which ancestors could have passed down Y-DNA, mtDNA, or X-DNA to the home person of a tree means walking the pedigree in your head and remembering the inheritance rules for each test. View DNA Inheritance Paths highlights the correct ancestors on the tree for you at the click of a button.
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Taking a clean screenshot of an Ancestry family tree is harder than it should be. The toolbars, side panels, and interface buttons all end up in the capture, and the default layout is laid out for the screen rather than the page. Family Tree Screenshot Tools adds two one-click view modes that strip away the clutter and lay the tree out for a screenshot or print.
Ancestry’s family tree lets you expand all generations and hide the siblings of any person, but both actions are buried behind multiple clicks. If you want to jump a large tree open or collapse the sibling clutter to concentrate on the direct line, you end up clicking the same small controls over and over. Easy Hide and Expand in Family Tree adds two buttons right on the tree...
Once you have expanded a few generations of an Ancestry family tree, working out how two people on the screen are related means counting generations up to a shared ancestor and back down again, and it is easy to lose track of a removal or a half relationship along the way. Relationship Finder in Family Tree does the counting for you: click two people and the relationship between them is...
Ancestry keeps its Tree viewing options separately for every individual tree, so each new tree starts with additional spouses hidden and has to be adjusted by hand through the More menu and then Tree viewing options. If you work across several trees, that is the same handful of clicks every time you open a new one. Custom Tree Viewing Options applies your preferred options for you the first time you open...
