Grouping

[Kerrill]

Is there any way you can search for 1c1removed in Ancestry so you can create a group of them ?

[Zaphod99]

On AncestryDNA, there isn’t a direct search filter for “1C1R” (first cousin once removed) or any specific relationship prediction. The site’s filters are fairly limited (close matches, distant matches, common ancestors, etc.).

However, there are a few workarounds you can use:

1. Use the “Groups” feature manually

You can create a custom group (e.g., “1C1R”) with a coloured dot.

Then, as you review each match, if Ancestry predicts them as “1C1R” you can assign them to that group.


2. Search by “Shared cM” ranges

1C1R usually falls in the 220–680 cM range (average ~450 cM).

You can’t type “1C1R” in the search box, but you can sort matches by cM, and scan through those in the right range.

Anyone in that range could be 1C1R (but also half first cousins, great-aunts/uncles, etc.).


3. Download your match list

Ancestry itself doesn’t give you a download button, but you can use tools like DNAGedcom Client or DNA Painter’s cM Tool after uploading.

That way you can filter in a spreadsheet by the “Predicted Relationship” column and group all “1C1R” matches together.


4. “Notes” as a pseudo-search

If you put “1C1R” into the Notes field for each identified match, you can then use the search bar at the top of the match list to find them later (the search bar does look through notes).


👉 So, the only true searchable way inside Ancestry itself is the Notes trick — write “1C1R” into the notes and then use the search box.
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[Kerrill]

Thats brilliant Zap,  this helps me greatly thanks.

[Biggles50]

In the Matches, select Filters and in the Shared DNA section select Custom Centimorgan Range, then enter a range of 250-600.

Add these to your Custom Group.

You can then change the custom range to 102-980 (DNA Painter’s range for 1C1R) and see what others there are and add them, but do take care as in the low 100’s you can easily see 3C’s.

Do look and consider DNA Painter’s predicted relationships whilst you are adding to your Group.

[Kerrill]

Thanks Biggles,
                       that should answer a few more questions for me.

[ikas]

If you put “1C1R” into the Notes field for each identified match, you can then use the search bar at the top of the match list to find them later (the search bar does look through notes).

Could you elaborate? How do you search the notes field?

[Zaphod99]

Yes — this is a little-known feature in AncestryDNA!

Here’s how it works:

1. Go to your DNA match list

Log in, click DNA at the top, then DNA Matches.


2. Add a note to a match

On the right-hand side of any match, click the little square speech-bubble icon (it looks like a sticky note).

Type something like “1C1R” into the note and save.


3. Search for it later

At the top of your match list there’s a search box (it says “Search matches by name or surname”).

That box doesn’t just search names — it also looks inside your notes.

So if you’ve written “1C1R” in the notes of several matches, just type 1C1R in the search box, and only those tagged matches will appear.


That’s the simplest way to “tag and retrieve” them without needing outside tools.

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[ikas]

Thanks for your reply Zaphod99 but I don't seem able to get it to work. I have created a new note on one of my matches that reads 1C1R and then saved it. Returning to my match list I enter 1C1R in search box. No results found. I have attached a screen shot.

[Biggles50]

Go to the DNA menu.

Select Matches

Once they are displayed click on the Filter.

There you will see Notes, click on it and it should show all the Matches that have Notes added to them.  It is limited in functionality as you cannot search for something specific, on my iPad it shows all my DNA matches that have Notes added to them and there are a lot of them, Zaphods method does not work for me.  Maybe ProTools has more functionality available but I will leave that to a forum member who has a ProTools sub to advise further.

Personally I do not use this method I prefer to create a new Group, which in this case would be called 1C1R and I would assign all the applicable DND Cousins to this Group.  You can then use the Filter feature go into Groups and click on 1C1R to display all the DNA matches in that Group.