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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: rsel on Wednesday 18 December 24 16:56 GMT (UK)
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Hi all,
I don't know if anybody else has got it yet (or if its just part of my pro tools sub), but i just got a notification on going to my matches page that i can now create 64 groups.
Richard
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I don't have Pro tools and only have 24 groups
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I have Pro Tools but only have 24 groups, so it looks like it's another feature that's being rolled out gradually.
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Slowly being rolled out, I got the expansion about an hour go but others had it 12 hours ahead of me. It's broken my tree again so I can't edit it or review hints (happens whenever Ancestry start fiddling).
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The 64 group option has come up for me this evening, but I'm a bit concerned about what will happen to the extra groups when I let my Pro Tools subscription lapse.
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I got this today but I have another dilemma - do I focus on location grouping or go to the 64 family name grouping?
I can see merit in both but it would mean extra fiddling work to reclassify - where location grouping is just an add on to the ones I have
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I don't have pro tools, but have now got 64 group option.
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I think Glen in an earlier thread has pointed out there is no connection between protools and number of groups extension to 64.
I got the 64 new groups message this morning and it now says I have 18/64 groups allocated. However there are still only 32 colours available to create new groups. The 18 colours already allocated do not appear crossed out as before. To test it I created ten new groups ie above the previous max of 24. That worked but the colours allocated are not crossed out and I could allocate the same colour to several groups. Looks bugged to me.
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Looks bugged to me.
Haven't you left a syllable out ;D
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LizzieL. ;D ;D
I don't have Pro tools and only have 24 groups
I have now had the message and have 64 today :)
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Spot on LizzieL. ;D
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There's a way to add an emoji into the group name and into the coloured dot if you use a windows pc. Just push the windows button and full stop at the same time to pull up the emoji list.
Select the colour then click the windows button and full stop at the same time, add the emoji into the group name field. You can include text in the group name as well if needed
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There's a way to add an emoji into the group name and into the coloured dot if you use a windows pc. Just push the windows button and full stop at the same time to pull up the emoji list.
Select the colour then click the windows button and full stop at the same time, add the emoji into the group name field. You can include text in the group name as well if needed
That's clever. Must have a go at that. Ironing can wait.
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My Pro Tools has lapsed but it is showing that I have used 15/64.
On my iPad I tap on the onscreen emoji on the keyboard and insert 😱into the name so this is now my mystery matches.
Many thanks Glen, I had not thought of using emojis
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Hi everyone
Has anyone tried adding an emoji using Linux OS.
I have it on both laptop and main computer. so it would be goo if I can.
Will try it later today.
Essnell
and Merry Christmas to ye all. :)
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Seems that without a subscription I am still limited to 24 groups but if I subscribed I could have 64 - which they reckon is 39 more than I can have at the moment. Is it my maths that are wrong? I wonder what would happen if I subscribed, created all those groups and then let the subscription lapse, would I lose a load of groups?
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Seems that without a subscription I am still limited to 24 groups but if I subscribed I could have 64 - which they reckon is 39 more than I can have at the moment. Is it my maths that are wrong? I wonder what would happen if I subscribed, created all those groups and then let the subscription lapse, would I lose a load of groups?
(https://i.postimg.cc/4dqbmSv7/Screenshot-from-2025-01-03-18-51-02.png)
It seems the setup is you get it with an Ancestry subscription of any kind. It's also saying I have 25 groups, but I only have 24.
Hopefully they just don't let you edit once you are up to 64 groups and your subscription expires.
To someone who mentioned about 32 colours. The setup is you have 32 colours and then each group has a letter to differentiated.
This has been a much needed feature for some time. Using the old limited DNA interface I grouped all my matches down 20cM. Since you could not see shared matches below that. It's just a shame Ancestry feel the need to bleed their most active customers for what are minor development updates. They really should be providing a lot more for £7.50/$10 a month:
- a chromosome browser
- find matches by shared segments via the browser
- show common ancestors in all your DNA matches trees (including extrapolations of those trees)
- a tool that will auto-group clusters of matches (including low cM matches)
- more advanced tools for cataloging the matches; at the moment I use a spreadsheet, but if you could use a system built in to the website it would be much more powerful, letting you more clearly see who in which clusters are DNA matches
It would be worth the money at that price range.
24 groups were not enough. I have about 10 "overflow" groups down to 20cM+ groups for each of my tests. I have designated those by adding notes like: #OVERFLOW - Maternal - Welsh654#, but it's more cumbersome to work with those.
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Ancestry make it seem that the features in protools are the only method of performing certain tasks and whilst it's true they are (possibly), more convenient than manual methods a lot of the shiny baubles that is protools aren't actually about matches, they are about tree checkers and none dna content.
The thing that really irks me with Protools is that the times I have it running I drop from 5-6 matches per day to almost no matches at all and as soon as it expires (around 4pm for me), I suddenly get 40+ matches in one go at 6pm. It's happened 3 times now with yesterday being the most extreme of all, just 12 matches throughout the whole of December, at 4pm protools finished and 6pm I had 63 matches drop at once. I'm wondering why lots appear just an hour or two after the point when I have to pay to investigate them.