Can you explain what you mean here Keith? Can you give details?
You DNA matches are above 90% accurate. Yes, Ancestry use an algorithm to attempt to make the matching more accurate which sometimes filters out definite matches, but all your 4th-6th cousins WILL be cousins, it's a matter of working yours and their trees to find the connection - I spend all day every day doing this, with the help of GEDmatch to find which cousins share the same DNA segment, and therefore the same ancestor. Yes, many have no trees, many have private trees,
and many have inaccurate trees, or trees to small to work with, but there will be enough of your matches that do have trees to keep you busy.
cheers,
Sharon
PS If you are both "hanging" on for your LEAF - you may be waiting a terribly long time for what? It may well be the details in your trees that for some reason Ancestry thinks doesn't match, or there may be a glitch - call their support - that's what they are there for.
Sharon,
I may ultimately do that but for the moment we are both hanging on to see how long it takes for Ancestry to recognise the match. It just amuses me that they can find a load of apparently nebulous matches between me and almost anyone with English and some Scandinavian DNA but can't see a match which Gedmatch demonstrates to be very strong indeed.
Keith