Need a New AncestryDNA Extension or Features

I need a new feature or two with my AncestryDNA matches. However, it might be possible with an extension and I would take it any way I could get it.

Here’s my idea…. I have multiple DNA kits that I manage. I would love an easy way to copy the notes from one kit I manage to another kit that I manage.  

Currently, I am copying the notes manually, by having my DNA test results up on one monitor and having my sibling’s results up on the other. 

I use the AncestryDNA helper extension so I can type in the matches’ user name on my test results page as I sequentially work through all the DNA test results of my sister’s matches.  When I click on the result from my page, it opens a new tab with the match. From my sister’s page I have to click the “View Match” button to open matches page and manually copy the match from my screen over to my sister’s screen.

 I wish that I could modify the notes from the main page, without going into the “View match” button of my sister’s page. Currently, I use the MedBetterDNA extension to display the notes associated with the tests matches. So if MedBetterDNA could let us edit the notes from this page, I call it BONUS!

Otherwise, if there was a way to just copy all the notes for common matches between two test.

Currently, AncestryDNAHelper allows you to compare two tests for common matches, now once it comes up with that list, if there was another option that would copy Test A notes to Test B notes for common matches, I would be in heaven!

Now here is the real bonus, if I could only mass copy those notes. I manage my two half-siblings DNA results. Plus my half-nephew has shared his DNA results with me.  If there was a way to copy my nephew’s notes to my half-brother’s common matches first, then copy my notes to my half-brother’s common matches second. Keep in mind, that my notes may override a few notes of my nephews on those common matches that all three of us share.  My half-brother has over 1000+ 4^th cousin matches or closer. I would love to quickly add all those notes. Then I could manually go through his matches and find all the ones that are unique to him and add notes. When I was done, I could copy my half-brother’s notes over to my half-sister’s notes and then manually go through her matches and find those remaining unique matches.

What a time saver this all would be!

However, since I don’t have these features, its back to manually copy notes from one DNA test to another. WHEW!

Example of Double First Cousins who Married Sisters

In one of the Facebook Groups I belong to, a member was reporting how her and her sister married Double 1st cousins. She shared this as a bit of a conversation starter and I just had to draw it out, so I could share with my DNA buddy in my Genealogical Society.

Kathryn wrote: "This is a match to my daughter and my son. I manage all 3 kits. If I was looking at this without knowing the relationship I would probably be asking my husband some questions - as my first guess would probably be half sibling to my children. However, this is my nephew. My sister and I married cousins, their parents are siblings that married siblings. So a brother and sister married a brother and sister and their respective sons' married sisters. Still with me? So this man is a first cousin to my children and also a first cousin once removed twice over - which then equates to roughly the same DNA as a half-sibling.

While this is an incredibly rare occurrence I would think, it does demonstrate that sometimes the obvious isn't always the correct answer :) Especially when looking at relationships in endogenous societies - usually much further back than this bunch of millennial's."

Now a correction to what Kathryn wrote, her nephew and her children are actually Double 2nd cousins, not first cousin's once removed twice over. They are at the same level from all their common ancestors and thus there would be no removed between them. Confusing, I know.

Anyway, enjoy the picture I created to give me and other's a visual of this complicated relationships.