I only use chrome for ancestry but because there are a few chrome extensions that are massively helpful when working with your ancestry dna matches.
Ancestry dna matches download.
However i tried it a few times on a few browsers and it never worked.
On the download dna data page on ancestry click download dna data.
The extension limits the download to matches having 20cm or more in common.
In this post you ll learn exactly how to download your raw dna from ancestry with step by step.
Update 16 june 2020.
What will my results tell me.
Get dna matches.
Ancestry does not include matches with less than 20cm shared in their in common matching.
So 125 000 matches in 6 minutes your results may vary.
I ve listed them in order of how useful i find them.
The tools described here will continue to work with other dna sites where specified.
If you re brought to a page that contains a dna ad rather than a sign in page you may be.
From any page on ancestry click the dna tab and select dna matches.
Then i chose sort and then close to distant because i wanted those closest to me to be listed.
Ancestry match downloader is designed to use the new ancestry dna api to scan store and download your current matches.
If you have received your ancestry dna results you might be interested in learning how to download dna from ancestry.
Ancestry has stopped third party tools from downloading matches.
This article compares and contrasts differing tools to download ancestry matches.
Viewing the matches you share with another match.
This the 4th cousin or closer filter that ancestry uses.
Your ancestrydna results include information about your geographic origins across 1 000 regions and identifies potential relatives through dna matching to others who have taken the ancestrydna test.
4000 this means don t download any shared matches click on.
If prompted sign in.
Whether you just want a copy for your records or want to upload it to sites like gedmatch to get more information from your results it s a good idea to know how it s done.
If your link has expired start over at step 1.
For this option i clicked on dna matches which is all matches.
Are you wondering how to download your matches and shared matches from ancestry.
In the email click confirm data download.
This is an incredibly simple but powerful extension which allows you to apply a colour dot to each of your matches.
On the match compare page click the shared matches tab to see which matches you share with that match.
I find that the best way to tackle thousands of matches is to download them into a spreadsheet and organize them in a way that every piece of information can be seen and filtered the power of spreadsheets allows me to search sort and filter on any and all pieces of information i choose to track in a.
Lowest centimorgans of shared matches.
Many people have tried various apps to download their full ancestry dna match list.
Here s a picture of the message when the download is complete.
Filtering matches by maternal or paternal side.
A download link can be used just once and it will expire after one week.
Do you feel a little overwhelmed when looking at your ancestry dna matches.