Very useful, thanks Donna.

Thank you Donna for explaining, I think this will really help me, it's given me further understanding on how I can use WATO and Pro Tools, to work out those matches that elude us (if only they would add trees for us). Always love your video's keep them coming, as I really enjoy learning these new tips and tricks🙂

Thanks for this. Please do consider smaller segments ~ I find your presentations very easy to understand. You only touced on weighted and unweighted, and I'd love to see a small presentation on this if you can. Thank you from Australia. <3

It's the 9th of August 2024. I notice already that I'm not able to 'hide' or 'message' from where you were talking about, and there definitely is a view new matches filter. Also, nobody seems to be wearing a white t-shirt. :)

Thanks for a simple presentation. <3

Thanks for reviewing this! Using this new capability, I spent a lot of time backing up shared matches for my top 125 matches, which created a 125 x 125 chart that looks kind of like this: (Shared cM) Person1 Person2 Person3 ... Person1 6800 621 436 ... Person2 621 6800 337 ... Person3 436 337 6800 ... ... ... ... ... This information seems very powerfully useful, since we know how each person relates to every other person, but I don't understand how to sort it in order to create natural clusters. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thank you.

Just a suggestion, Is it possible to change your cursor colour/size whilst doing these, I found it a little hard to follow the small white cursor as you were saying "see here" etc. Many thanks for the video, very useful as always.

I see pro tools is being offered to users on the Australian website which means Kiwis should be able to access this as well. I was wondering about the cost/ benefit so this was a timely video for me.

$16/month in Canada, as they base it on $10/mo USD.

Pro tools: pay a lot for things you can get for free if you learn to research.

Thanks for the mention of how you added emojis to your dots. That inspired me to see if there was a DNA emoji on my Win11 keyboard. Yes! Now I can add that emoji to the suffix field of all the ancestors who I’ve found a DNA connection. That way when I look at my tree, I can immediately see the DNA trail.☺️

Thank you for the insight. I'm still on the old Ancestry, but I think I will prepare by changing the names of my groups so they will be easier to identify.

Today is June 16 Father's Day. I don't have the beta change yet. Thank you for your clear and insightful presentation.

This was very helpful--thank you! I belong to a local DNA research group spearheaded through a local library (here in Florida, USA) and one of our members shared your very enlightening video. I love your positive presentation, with the suggestion to give Ancestry the benefit of the doubt until they get the kinks worked out through this beta process. Hopefully they'll get things sorted soon enough. Thanks again!

Great video!

Very useful Donna, when I finally found it! Jane

Thanks for the information and for the tip about the emojis! I did have emojis in my list for all my main family lines, but had all my categories numbered in order e.g. 1, 1a, 1b... and unfortunately, starting a category name with the emoji messes this up. I've asked if we can arrange our Categories list in our own order, not their random one. The colour squares are still very small, and with an emoji it's hard to see the colour background (and if you have more than one group for the same emoji/group, it's very unclear). And they've taken away some of the more distinguishable colours (yellows, pale variants) and added more too-close colours!! I'm hoping they will actually provide a good range of colours (or let us make our own as in DNA painter - that would be perfect! One can only keep asking). They've also hidden most of the notes - just the 1st half line shows, though there is a pop-up when you go to the end of the first bit, so that's not too bad. And even though the 'pages' are clunky and non-selectable, you can select a cM range to view. They have some good options in the drop-down lists at the right of the matches and at the top of the page - will be fun exploring some of those. I like the Compare Matches feature, and I can't wait to see how many cM our matches share with each other, if indeed they are going to introduce that :)

I filtered on 'Public Linked Trees' but I still see matches with no trees.

I move to the next page with the arrows at the bottom the page doesn’t move. Can they ever leave well enough alone?!

Thanks Donna very useful. Couldn't find the FB group?

Thank you! Im looking forward to them using the self reported ages to eliminate some of the relationship scenarios.

If you join pro tools and use the extra colours for groups, can you still see those groups if your pro tools sub expires?

Can you provide a link to your FaceBook page? Thanks for the tip about emojis! I never knew you could bring them up with the Windows key and period!

Thank you, this was very useful and helpful!

Thanks Donna This is very useful in advance of my SAG AncestryDNA interest groups here in Australia and will give them the links to your upcoming sessions! 👋👋

I don't want to be negative because you're right with advances in understanding and fixing problems users may have reported then changes are welcome. I have been researching a 2x g grandfather and so DNA matches are distant and so even filtering by a single cM returns to many matches than every my quite powerful laptop can't even cope with scrolling all the way to the bottom so the pagination is a good move, but I do feel like some of these basic features like access to more dots (or squares as they will be) or seeing counts when filtering they will put behind a paywall and charge us for. I'm not against paying for new useful features, they cost money to develop so I don't expect this for free, they have to make money to keep developing the site and extra on top, but I just feel Ancestry, which I think has recently had investment from equity capital is going down the path of monetising anything it can and I feel their approach might work with someone like me (though probably a month or two at various times or the year) but it's not going to attract me people who aren't already deep into genealogy. I'm already thinking of going over to MyHeritage and GEDMatch when my current subscription ends and will only be back in 6 months. The only thing that I think they have said it's coming that I might come back for a month or so to look at is knowing how many cMs your shared matches share with each other, that I would pay for, to be honest there's not much else. I'd pay to be able to see shared matches down to say 15cM rather than the 20cM limit there is right now, it might help me solve my 2x g grandfather mystery but I'm not holding my breath on this being available. I do think as many who've tested now age, pass away, and become more and more distant to new people Ancestry is going to have to rethink how distant matches are matched and matches are verified, chromosomes are verified as being from one parent or the other. I think at the moment they just like giving you a lot of matches for you to try and out of they are false or not and this won't work for many. They also need to bring out some clustering tool. Every other site seems to have it, I can't believe the biggest DNA testing company doesn't have this!!! Good video, very interesting, but I just feel too many basic features are now being offered as extras to even their already expensive subscriptions.

Additionally, I have tons of very distant cousins some as high as 10th and 11th cousins ( I don't know how but at this time these are the only relationships I know them to be). Ancestry has really messed up my dad's cousins through his grandmother. I only share 12cM for example with my half 2nd cousin via my dad's grandma. Her dad I only share 46cM but before Timber it is 70 something. He is my half 1c1r. I don't know what I am supposed to do with all these changes.

This is a mess. I have a lot of issues with how I match certain cousins as it is that need worked out. I also am related twice to one surname making my parents 5th cousins, I have more serious pedigree collapse with a set of 3rd great grandparents. Not all people report their ages so how are they going to ptedict relationships? How are they going to account for half cousins and endogamy? Also, why would they remove what they timbered from matches? I really needed to have that information. The color groups are a mess. I don't like any of this at all.

Thanks Donna. This was very useful and showed a number of things I hadn't spotted yet.

Thank you Donna.

Thank you very informative

My name is Jean Cameron, i was just talking to my daughter about this car racing and mentioned about our neighbour in a flat in Devon St, New Plymouth and how we went to watch him race in his no 99 midget car.. we were searching for Don Rutherford and came across your you tube video, it was great to see our flat, and show my daughter where we lived when arriving in NZ from England. Are you his daughter as I remember your Mum Marjory expecting a baby in the very early 60s. Great memories, thank you Donna😊

Why 12.5 percent from a grandparent? Half of 50 is 25 so we expect 25 percent on average. The actual is reported to vary from 15 - 35 AFAIK.

I think they look funny but also cool

I really enjoy polar bears

Great video Donna

Ciao sono Kevin ti vedo sempre .io ho un gruppo di corrispondenze su myheritage che abbiamo tutti una triangolazione sullo stesso segmento.loro sono tutti dei paesi balcanici e io italiano del sud .loro hanno le mie due etnie greco e italiano meridionale e medio orientale.poi loro hanno altre etnie che io non ho.il fatto che nel mio albero mi manca il padre della mia nonna e il padre della mia bis nonna.mi e venuto il dubbio che potrebbe venire da queste due persone sconosciuti.e possibile?loro hanno da 8%ha 15% ha 14eccsono pochi centimorgan ma triangoliamo.puo essere che ci sono dei fratellastri e sorrelastri tra mia nonna e mia bisnonna? Grazie

Thank you. My DNA test has just arrived at Ancestry - so I have a way to go yet. I am realising that it might be more complex than I realised, so am sure I will be watching you again when my matches turn up.

Great info…thank you. Can you clarify how to USE the research/floating tree? I built one but didn’t understand how to make sense of it once it was built, so I deleted it. If I have duplicates I can merge them but how do I, later on, easily find which folks shared that merged person without having to go through all of the merged person’s descendants one by one? Hope that makes sense. I currently have a lot of Q&D trees and would love to combine them and actually be able to use that large tree effectively. Thank you!

Thank goodness those days are gone. Now good zoos are conservationists who study their capative animals to benefit the wild ones. And their environments, food and care are tops.

Hi, you were recommended to me. Interestingly, one family I want to know more of is Rutherford. We may be related!

Thank-you for this information and for making it available on KZbin

Hi there , my name is Donna Poole now ,but grandfather family live in north Carolina . They was I reland .,so my last name Rutherford too . I did a DNA test . So , I think we are family.

thanks donna this has helped a lot a very clear and precise explanation and hopefully will help me find my missing family

Thank-you for this. I'm just starting my DNA journey. I'm wondering how you would go about confirming an ancestor that changed their name? I think I've confirmed my 2x great-grandfather (abandoned first family and changed name with the second family), but want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.

You made me laugh when you said "you can't get your neighbors DNA from asking them for a cup of sugar". lol. Great video.

Thanks Donna!

Excellent stuff, very nice slides.

Brilliant so I can send people to this.

Thank you for doing this!