How can I use the AncestryDNA member names shown by WikiTree?

Question

Until recently, if a WikiTree member published his or her AncestryDNA user ID or member name as suggested at
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:AncestryDNA
- e.g. ciwhitten, it was possible to go to, e.g.
http://community.ancestry.com/profile.aspx?cba=ciwhitten
to find the user's AncestryDNA profile page and to check quickly whether the other user was a match to any of the AncestryDNA kits shared with me.

This link is now diverting to my own profile rather than to the other user's profile.

In theory, one can copy the member name and paste it into the Member search page at
https://www.ancestry.com/community/membersearch?size=50
but I have never trusted that page.  It fails to find the last two member names which I have come across at WikiTree, which could of course be because both WikiTree members mistyped or changed or deleted their AncestryDNA member names.

If there is still a URL in which the member name can be successfully inserted, it would be nice if WikiTree automatically hyperlinked the member name to this URL.

Otherwise, it appears that the alternative is the much more laborious process of opening the match list of every relevant DNA kit and searching them in turn for the WikiTree member.  I tried this yesterday and found three different David Irwins (or D.I.s managed by another Irwin) at AncestryDNA, all with matches suggesting that they might be the WikiTree member, but none with a public pedigree chart, so that any or none of them might be the David Irwin that I had found on WikiTree.

The Member search page is no help, as it gives 323 hits for David Irwin!

Any suggestions for cutting out the extra legwork now required?

Comments

Paddy, I added a few tags to your post to try and get the right people to see the post.

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Thanks.

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I'm not sure if there is a new working link. If anyone knows what it is, let me know.

Answer 1

I concur that it diverts to my own profile.

Interestingly, you cannot find my username if you search for it... coolgarra ....I don't know why, but if you search for coolgarra1 (an old username that I don't use) it comes up. So, on that profile I added the correct URL for my coolgarra profile.

I'd definitely be interested to find out how to now find people's username, as I think it stinks when you want to invite someone to your tree, but you don't know their email or username, so can't.