What problem does Select All Button for Shared Matches solve?
When you are grouping shared matches on an AncestryDNA match’s shared matches page, Ancestry makes you tick the checkbox on every match one at a time. If there are fifty shared matches, that is fifty clicks before you can assign them to a group. Select All Button for Shared Matches ticks every checkbox on the page for you with a single click.
How does Select All Button for Shared Matches work?
A new Select All Matches button is added to the filters toolbar on the shared matches page. When adding people to groups, clicking this button automatically selects all matches on the current page, while a Deselect All Matches button lets you quickly clear all selections. From there you can open the group panel and apply a colour group to the whole page at once. On an AncestryDNA ProTools account a second Apply to all pages button is also added: choose the groups you want, click it, and Genealogy Assistant records those selections and walks through every page of shared matches applying the same groups to each one. A progress overlay shows which page is being processed and includes a Cancel button so you can stop the pass at any time.
How do I use Select All Button for Shared Matches?
- Ensure Select All Button for Shared Matches is enabled in the Genealogy Assistant pop-up panel.
- Open a DNA match and click the Shared Matches tab.
- Click Select All above the list to tick every shared match on the page, then assign them to a group. Click Deselect All to clear the selection.
- On an AncestryDNA ProTools account, choose the groups you want and click Apply to all pages to walk through every page of shared matches and apply those groups to each one. A progress overlay shows the current page and you can click Cancel to stop early.
Select All Button for Shared Matches is a feature of the software Genealogy Assistant.
Genealogy Assistant is an extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari which supercharges your family history research by adding over 100 custom features to popular genealogy websites like Ancestry, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, FamilyTreeDNA and more. You can watch a full video walkthrough on YouTube.
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