Ancestry Pro Tools

 Ancestry Pro Tools

I'm a big fan of Ancestry Pro Tools and have been using the tools for some time now.  Ancestry Pro Tools is an add-on membership that requires an active Ancestry family history membership.  The above chart shows the advanced tools in Ancestry Pro Tools.  

Recently, I've been using the Tree Checker to fix problems in my family trees - mainly merging duplicates and fixing possible errors.  Below is a clip showing the current tree rating after correcting and fixing problems.  Wish I had a before and after for the tree rating.  My tree had over 1,200 duplicates when I first started so I am making progress.   

One of the tools that I have recently tried is the Tree Mapper.   While I have not tried everything in Tree Mapper, the visuals are great!  You can filter the map by name, location, time period, family lines, etc.  Below is a map show where my direct line maternal ancestors lived during the 1750-1900 time period.  The filters for this map are shown checked on the right side of the map.

Mostly I've used the Enhanced Shared Matches, which is a DNA match game changer.  This tool alone is worth the extra cost of Pro Tools!!  Most of my DNA match mysteries have been solved using this tool😊  This tool allows me to see how my matches share DNA with our common matches.  Ancestry makes it possible to sort the shared matches of a match from close to distant.  

Thank you Ancestry.com for these tools👍😍😀