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Old 09-03-19, 10:21
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Default Neverending list of DNA matches

My list of DNA matches is seemingly neverending. I just can't get to the bottom of it. As the DNA matches are all on the same page, I have to keep scrolling and scrolling down to try to find the people with whom I share relatively little DNA.

It is totally frustrating as most of them have no trees whatsoever, whilst some have just a very few family members on their trees.

I just wish that Ancestry would put the DNA matches onto pages, then I could click quickly through the pages and get to the matches I want to see.
To solve any of my brick walls, I suspect it is those matches I need to study. However, for most of my matches it is impossible to see how we are connected.
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Old 09-03-19, 10:45
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No problem. Just go to extras, and switch the beta lab off. You can then start to cope with the pile.
It did take me four months to sort out Best Mate's matches, but I've put a note by every single one, telling me why they are important (or that they are not, and then hiding them)
This has left me with a far more managable list to play with.
Unfortunately, since I started concentrating on my matches, she has three thousand new matches!
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Old 09-03-19, 10:53
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Thanks, Phoenix. That works a treat. I can jump through the pages now. I really need to get myself more organised now, but I have had other pressures on my time.
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Old 09-03-19, 10:54
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On page 50 I'm still getting people who match me with 12.3 cM.
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Old 09-03-19, 11:28
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she has three thousand new matches!
This is what astounds me. How can we be related to so many people?

Dad has 22000+ matches. I doubt I've ever met that many people in my life.
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Old 09-03-19, 11:42
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Where do you see how many matches you have?
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Old 09-03-19, 11:48
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Where do you see how many matches you have?
Was about to ask the same thing.

Edit: oh I just realised, if you are in the new Beta DNA matches if you click on All Matches on the top tab it lists all your groups and scroll down it has close or 4th cousin or closer matches, distant matches, new matches, hidden matches.

Begs the question what is Hidden Matches?

Mine are:

Close or 4th cousin or closer matches = 247
Distant matches = 29,082 :
New matches = 901
Hidden matches = 0

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Old 09-03-19, 11:51
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Back to Lab.
The new system gives numbers. Not only what you have analysed (pitifully few) but the total as well. 22,975 for me, excluding hidden ones.
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Old 09-03-19, 11:52
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Under the All Matches tab.
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Old 09-03-19, 11:56
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Under the All Matches tab.
Snap I realised after I posted.
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