DNA Summary Page Changes

 

AncestryDNA Your Results Summary.

Ancestry has made some minor changes to the DNA results summary pages which include some useful shortcuts to see quickly new matches as they are added. If you go to Your Results Summary page, you see a similar box at the top to the one I am showing from my results. The matches box on the right is clickable, and if you put your cursor on the number above new in the lower right box, this takes you directly to the most recent unviewed matches. 

This number seems to be updated as soon as new matches are added, because between the time when I initially viewed the page, and captured the screenshot, a new match was added to my total. My page now shows 111 as I type this blog post.

I can also switch between the other tests I administer, and quickly see the numbers of new matches added. For example, my Mom's results show 60,134 matches, while my Dad's shows 49,211. I can look at these numbers change over time. I can then click into these new matches, and do a glance for any new names and totals that might be high and important for a closer look. It's also possible to goggle between the tests I manage with the filter set to "new", as seen below (the page then shows all the new matches, but I'm not including those here for privacy reasons).

AncestryDNA page with filter to new matches.

Maybe this feature has been around for a while and I'm just now noticing it. In any case, it is a timesaver.