Ancestral surname search

[WCoaster]

If the new global search can pull up ancestral surnames from trees, why can't the search function do the same thing within our own accounts? I just checked again, and only names on surname lists come up - not names from trees. Since the introduction of the new "interactive" format, surname lists are no longer automatically populated when trees are uploaded, and many people don't list their surnames separately.

Please fix this!

[Germanica]

You can restrict the global search to show results only from your matches. Go to the global search and click "advanced search", then tick the box that says "DNA matches only". This will search the names within the trees of your matches.

[WCoaster]

Sorry – I didn’t make myself clear in my earlier post. I’m not really asking about “Global Search.” I’m just wondering why our matches’ (and all public) trees can be searched under “Global Search,” but not when we click on “Ancestral Surnames” and key in a name. As things stand, surnames don’t come up unless the tree owner has a surname list as well as a tree.

Global Search doesn’t fill the need to run a quick check to see who among my matches shares a particular surname. Instead, it shows every instance of the name in matches’ trees. Even within my match list, that can run to hundreds or thousands of pages.

I just want the simple Ancestral Surname search to work the way it used to.

[nancylla]

Global Search the trees from within your matches

You can restrict the global search to show results only from your matches. Go to the global search and click "advanced search", then tick the box that says "DNA matches only". This will search the names within the trees of your matches.

When I do a global search for my y-dna surname and click dna matches only. I get 15 matches for which I can see trees.
I did y-dna test. For these to match to me, they did y-dna also... right?
Is there any significance to the order? are the ones at the beginning a closer genetic match to me?

[Carla]

I'm not absolutely certain but I think these are family trees across the board, FF, Y, mt. I only did FF and come up with all trees. However, I'm not sure where these trees come from because I will see a match to someone in my tree then I go to my FF matches and they're not there! Maybe you answered my question that perhaps they only did the y or mt and uploaded their gedcom and didn't do the FF, that's why I'm not finding them in my matches? Heck, I don't know..