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Highlight high mutual DNA matches on MyHeritage

MyHeritage has an excellent feature on their DNA matching platform which not only shows you how many shared cM you have with a match, but also shows you how many cM your mutual matches share with each other. This is incredibly helpful for determining which of your matches are closely related to each other, allowing you to target your research in an effort to triangulate a most common related ancestor between yourself and multiple of your shared matches.

For many research tasks I am often looking for these high mutual matches so I created a custom tool which makes the shared cM count of mutual matches red and larger than normal if the amount is over 50cM. This helps to find substantial connections much easier at a glance...

Highlight DNA Matches over 25cM on MyHeritage

MyHeritage is a great tool to identify DNA matches beyond Ancestry, however the ways you can filter through your matches are not quite as advanced. On Ancestry, you can set a minimum amount of shared cM for your displayed matches, which helps a lot when sorting by your most recent DNA connections.

This minimum shared cM filter does not exist on MyHeritage so I created a custom tool which makes the cM count appear larger than normal, as well as making the cM count red if the amount is over 25cM. This makes finding substantial connections much easier at a glance and saves time searching for new solid matches.

When you activate MyHeritage Highlight DNA Matches 25cM+, When activated, all shared cM counts on MyHeritage will appear larger, and...

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