It was immediately clear that many matches had a tree, but had no available surname list. I don’t know if it grabs unlinked trees, mine does to a limited degree (just one per match).
I use my own utility but the DNAGedcom Client will also download surname lists to spreadsheet to allow analysis. Specifically, my May analysis included a download of the Direct Ancestor Surname lists provided by Ancestry on the “Pedigree and Surname” page for each match where a tree is either displayed by default (the linked tree) or has been selected from a list of unlinked trees. To analyse usefulness I proceeded to drill down further into the actual content of those trees. 27% had no linked tree but had at least one public unlinked treeĪ total of (linked + unlinked) 67% of matches with at least one public tree at first glance would seem to be a very positive outcome.40% of my matches had a public linked tree.
Previously I discussed an analysis of the availability of trees across all my DNA matches.