If you have received your ancestry dna results you might be interested in learning how to download dna from ancestry.
Ancestry dna matches download.
Viewing the matches you share with another match.
If your link has expired start over at step 1.
From any page on ancestry click the dna tab and select dna matches.
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.
Ancestry does not include matches with less than 20cm shared in their in common matching.
Ancestrydna can also help identify relationships with unknown relatives through a dynamic list of dna matches.
The extension limits the download to matches having 20cm or more in common.
On the match compare page click the shared matches tab to see which matches you share with that match.
Filtering matches by maternal or paternal side.
On the download dna data page on ancestry click download dna data.
In your list of dna matches click the name or username of a match.
If prompted sign in.
Get dna matches.
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.
Many people have tried various apps to download their full ancestry dna match list.
This the 4th cousin or closer filter that ancestry uses.
This is an incredibly simple but powerful extension which allows you to apply a colour dot to each of your matches.
Ancestry has stopped third party tools from downloading matches.
Update 16 june 2020.
I ve listed them in order of how useful i find them.
Ancestry match downloader is designed to use the new ancestry dna api to scan store and download your current matches.
However i tried it a few times on a few browsers and it never worked.
For this option i clicked on dna matches which is all matches.
If you re brought to a page that contains a dna ad rather than a sign in page you may be.
Here s a picture of the message when the download is complete.
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.
Then i chose sort and then close to distant because i wanted those closest to me to be listed.
Lowest centimorgans of shared matches.
After the download export the downloaded txt file to excel.
Do you feel a little overwhelmed when looking at your ancestry dna matches.
What will my results tell me.
This article compares and contrasts differing tools to download ancestry matches.
In the email click confirm data download.
So 125 000 matches in 6 minutes your results may vary.
A download link can be used just once and it will expire after one week.
The tools described here will continue to work with other dna sites where specified.
