Reviews & Comments of AncestryDNA Match Filter chrome extension
From October 31st, 2019 to July 16th, 2021, 89% user give 5-star rating, 11% user give 2-star rating. for AncestryDNA Match Filter chrome extension.
Reviews of ancestrydna match filter:
This is an absolutely wonderful extension that helped me solve the mystery of who my paternal grandfather was. Very helpful and easy to use.
This was great but it doesn't work anymore after the recent updates at Ancestry. I hope the functionality can be fixed.
amazeballs.
It's great as I am trying to narrow down a branch of my paternal line. Only complaint is I would like to see an undue or go back button. Frustrating to get rid of 3 thousand people and then click one who gets rid of the one you are focusing on and have to start all over.
This has been extremely helpful for me. I can now filter out matches and concentrate on the lines I am working on. I think it is really terrific and works well.
I think this might work fairly well for people with only a few thousand matches, but not more than that. I have many, many matches I have already identified as belonging to certain lines, but even when I filter out those people, there are still many others who also belong to those same lines who have not yet been filtered out. This means that no matter how many people on lines A, B, and C I filter out, that still does not indicate that all left are from line D, especially as I go further back, filtering out people with few matches. Then there is the problem with cross-over matches. Even though my grandparents are not related to each other, unless several centuries back, some relatives of one grandparent married relatives of other grandparents, which means that I have matches who match some of my more distant cousins through grandparent A AND grandparent C, for example. I think an including filter could be more helpful than an excluding filter for those with many matches.
The extension does what it says it will. It filters out matches not in common. Beyond any second cousin a match might not be in common. I can see it being useful to run from time to time to make sure matches you have marked in common are correct. I used a profile I manage, filtered out the mother which removed all mother's side matches. I then used a 1/2 uncle to remove those in common and was left with few matches from that branch along with the paternal grandmother's branch. I filtered out a 1/2 first cousin to the maternal grandmother and was left with some interesting matches not in common with he closest family members and one only in common with the mother's side but not the mother. I like figuring out how in common matches are actually related a different way so I found a match of interest I hadn't tried to figure out yet. Great app, just be aware of the limitations of in common and not in common.
After a short initial trial, this makes searching for relatives much easier. I know my maternal side and by filtering them out I am left with those that are my unknown paternal relatives.
Very useful! For me this is very handy for filtering out matches that overwhelm my DNA match list so I can focus on other lines.