"It's a beautiful thing.

Now if we could just convince Ancestry to let us have the chromosome browser info....

I have over 11,400 matches here and most have trees. Can you even begin to imagine what that would look like in Genome Mate?

With so many matches, I can see why Ancestry isn't in a hurry to do that. The system resources it would take to run those matches would be huge. Perhaps they could put something in place for people to request the files and then run them as they have resources available. At this point, I'd gladly wait a month for that data. It's better than never."

I agree that having all our matches in Genome Mate would be a great thing but with regard to the system resources necessary to have a browser I refer you to FTDNA and 23andMe both of which have browsers and manage to handle the traffic without collapsing in on themselves. The guys at GEDmatch do it also and on a shoestring. Maybe ANC would have to limit the chromosome matching to just the 1st few thousand matches or something but it could be done.

I'm convinced that the money people are making all the decisions at ANC and unless something happens that will allow them to turn more of a profit off of us using a chromosome browser we're stuck with jumping through the current hoops to turn their results into useful data.