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kiterunner
16-11-21, 17:28
A new feature just added on MyHeritage - Labels let you organize DNA Matches by grouping them according to common ancestors, shared DNA segments, or other genealogical information. You can then filter the matches to see those associated with a specific label.

Ooh, this is going to keep me busy!
kiterunner
16-11-21, 18:29
You get 28 different colours for groups plus "favorites", i.e. starred matches. But it seems as though it will let you make more than one group using the same colour, so maybe it will allow more than 29 groups altogether? By comparison, on Ancestry you only get 24 colours plus starred matches.
kiterunner
16-11-21, 18:35
As far as I can tell, you can only add people to groups when you are looking at the list of matches, not when you are "reviewing" a single match. Quite annoying. Hopefully they will change that. For now I will try to remember to right-click and review the match in a new tab so I still have the list in the other tab. I think it maybe used to be like that on Ancestry too though.
Mary from Italy
17-11-21, 00:06
Oh, brilliant, I'd been hoping they'd do that. It's such a pain to keep track of the matches without it.

Now what we need is for Ancestry to add a chromosome browser :)

I've been having a lot of fun playing with DNAPainter, but it's a pity that lots of my interesting matches on Ancestry haven't uploaded their trees to any other sites, so I can't add them to it.
Mary from Italy
17-11-21, 00:25
It's annoying that when you look at people's shared matches, the group colour/name isn't displayed, whereas it is on Ancestry.
maggie_4_7
17-11-21, 15:31
Is this feature only available to people with subscriptions?
kiterunner
17-11-21, 16:19
No, because I've got it and I haven't got a sub.
Mary from Italy
17-11-21, 19:03
Me neither.
maggie_4_7
17-11-21, 20:41
I can't see it.
kiterunner
17-11-21, 21:43
When you look at your list of DNA matches, do you see symbols on the left-hand side of each one - a square, a star and a speech bubble?
maggie_4_7
17-11-21, 21:49
All I have is just a speech bubble for notes.
kiterunner
17-11-21, 22:12
Strange. I wonder whether they are rolling it out over a period of time.
maggie_4_7
18-11-21, 06:25
I must admit I find the MyHeritage a badly designed website, its too busy and muddly.
kiterunner
18-11-21, 09:09
Donna Rutherford (a DNA expert) has posted on Facebook that this feature is "slowly rolling out ".
ElizabethHerts
18-11-21, 09:16
Donna Rutherford (a DNA expert) has posted on Facebook that this feature is "slowly rolling out ".

I watched an online talk by Donna Rutherford at the weekend as part of the FH show. I have now joined the Facebook group DNA Help for Genealogy (UK) where she is an administrator. Apparently My Heritage are bringing out a detailed blog very soon.
Sue from Southend
18-11-21, 09:40
I was just about to post to say that I hadn't got this feature yet either but having checked again it's landed overnight! It definitely wasn't there yesterday as the "notes" symbol was still on the right hand side then.

That said I don't think I'll be using it much as I only have a handful of matches onMy Heritage with whom I can definitely find the relationship.
maggie_4_7
18-11-21, 10:08
I was just about to post to say that I hadn't got this feature yet either but having checked again it's landed overnight! It definitely wasn't there yesterday as the "notes" symbol was still on the right hand side then.

That said I don't think I'll be using it much as I only have a handful of matches onMy Heritage with whom I can definitely find the relationship.

It just this moment appeared when I refreshed the page.
kiterunner
18-11-21, 11:57
Here is their blog post:

https://blog.myheritage.com/2021/11/introducing-labels-for-dna-matches-on-myheritage/?fbclid=IwAR1BqQXID_a2GEI_-DeYR5r7OdUCK_HsGWSxUcz_leYsQIafrtWp4hReyXA