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Old 15-07-20, 10:01
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Can we bulk add matches to a group?

Why I'm asking is that ancestry will be changing how matches are displayed and accuracy of matches and we will lose matches under 8cms.

I know they are very distant, if they are real matches, but I don't want to lose them.

If we have them sorted into a group we can keep them.

I just don't want to do it one at a time.
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Old 15-07-20, 10:29
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I don't know of a way to do it, but would be interested if anyone does know of one.
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Old 15-07-20, 10:57
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If I find anything I'll let you know.
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Old 15-07-20, 11:13
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Not bulk adding, but you could search by surname (say) and then click on a group.

I have looked at every single match (and eliminated 25.9k of them) and it took MONTHS.

But there are some very low matches with useful trees. And I don't appear to have much genetic material in common with my favourite ancestors.
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Old 15-07-20, 11:16
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I plan to filter by shared data - 6 to 8 cM's, then select those with trees and add them all to a group or put in a comment (since I am currently maxed out on groups so I would have to merge two existing ones to make room for a new one). But I have no idea how long that would take! Maybe it won't be worth it.
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Old 15-07-20, 12:37
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there is no way to bulk add to a group. You have to do it one by one
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Old 17-07-20, 12:09
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Will they still be there after Ancestry discount 7cm and lower even if they are put into groups?
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Old 17-07-20, 12:42
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Anything with a group, a note or a message will remain.

It sounds as if you will lose common ancestors unless you have marked them.

The bummer is those with no trees. I have found a dozen or more that I initially rejected, subsequently putting up trees which demonstrate (at least a potential) relationship.

I have revisited all my 6-8 matches, but this would be an impossible task for anyone starting from scratch now.
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Old 17-07-20, 12:53
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Anything with a group, a note or a message will remain.

It sounds as if you will lose common ancestors unless you have marked them.

The bummer is those with no trees. I have found a dozen or more that I initially rejected, subsequently putting up trees which demonstrate (at least a potential) relationship.

I have revisited all my 6-8 matches, but this would be an impossible task for anyone starting from scratch now.
Do you mean that common ancestors won't show up even if grouped?
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Old 17-07-20, 13:28
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They'll show if you've colour coded them.
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