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Old 09-02-19, 17:42
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Is it hard to use Kate? I'd love something like this.

Also when it is finished can you tell us how long it took to run? Thanks
It (AncestryDNA Helper) is still scanning my match list at the moment, so it has been running for a few days, but I guess it would have been quicker if my laptop didn't go to sleep every time I leave it for a while. Apparently the scan puts everything into a database on my computer, and I can then click a "Download matches" button which extracts a .csv file from that database, which can be opened in Microsoft Excel. So I suppose it depends on how good you are with Excel - I know very little about it! But I assume I can sort by name, which should be useful. Also, I have been reading instructions and discussions, and finally realised that I could have downloaded a .csv file to start looking at before the scan finishes, so maybe I will try that next time my laptop goes to sleep.

Edit - I clicked the "Download matches" button and it showed that I have over 27,000 DNA matches but it has only scanned 12,000 of them so far!
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