AncestryDNA’s Clusters tool groups your matches by who shares DNA with whom, but the data stays inside the grid, and there is no export. If you want to work with the cluster data in a spreadsheet or another DNA tool, you cannot get it out. Download Clusters as CSV File adds a button that walks the grid for you and saves every pair of clustered matches to a CSV file....
When you click a match’s name in your AncestryDNA match list, Ancestry opens that match on the Trees tab. If you work primarily from shared matches (looking for group overlaps and cluster connections), that is the wrong tab for every single click and you have to press Shared Matches every time. Open Shared Matches from Match Name changes what the name link does so clicking it lands directly on...
On a shared matches page, every shared match has two things you might want to click: their name, which takes you to more shared matches, or their tree to see where they fit. Ancestry hard-codes both the name and photo to open the Trees tab, so there is no one-click way to go straight to a shared match’s shared matches. Open Trees from Shared Match Photo pairs with Open...
Working through AncestryDNA matches is a long sequence of the same small actions. You open the side panel, jump between tabs, add a group, add a note, and click into the tree. Every click comes from the mouse, and the buttons move around depending on which view you are in. Add Keyboard Shortcuts to DNA Matches maps every common action to a single letter so you can work the...
Working through your AncestryDNA matches list is a long sequence of the same small actions. For every match you want to triage you open the small menu beside the match, wait for the callout, and click through to the note, relationship, or groups panel. That is fine for one match. It is slow when you are sorting through fifty. Add Keyboard Shortcuts to Matches List maps the three most...
On Ancestry’s shared matches page, there is no header row with sort links above the two cM columns. If you want to flip from sorting by cM with you to cM with the match, you have to go through Ancestry’s sort menu every time. Add Quick Sort Links to Shared Matches adds a one-click sort link above each column so you can flip between the two sorts instantly....
When you want to check what kind of relationship a shared cM value could represent, the best answer is always on DNA Painter’s Shared cM Tool. Getting there from Ancestry means opening a new tab, loading the tool, and typing the cM value in by hand. DNA Painter Shared cM Tool Button puts a direct link next to every match that opens the Shared cM Tool with the cM...
Ancestry shows the total shared cM and the number of segments for every match, but the two figures that matter most when you are judging how close a match really is, the unweighted shared DNA and the longest segment, are hidden inside the Shared DNA pop-up, one match at a time. Nothing on Ancestry tells you the average size of the segments you share. Segment Stats on DNA Match...
