Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM

[CelticMom]

I am almost done my 6cm on one dna account, still got to do the 7cm and then do my own - oh my.

[CelticMom]

Still makes no sense why ancestry is doing this, I literally just cracked a branch I was stuck on, and that was with matches under 8cm.

We should have got a petition of some sort going. They should have a check box to turn on the lower matches, as most who don't even both to upload a tree would probably never do that.

They will probably add an additional tier for you to pay more money to see lower matches. Wouldn't surprise me.

[jillruss]

If I owned one, I'd take my hat off to you who've colour coded all of your 6-8 matches. I had another attack of 'missing out' this afternoon and started to do my 7.9 matches. I found myself glazing over and ended up with a stiff shoulder! I think I only attempted it because its too damn hot to do much else.

There were so many 7.9's that I hate to think how many more there are that are going to be lost to me, but, quite frankly, I've given up caring! I have a difficult enough job trying to get higher matches to actually respond to my messages, so the lower ones will just have to drift into the sunset.

I am not at all happy with Ancestry for doing this and may well exercise my right next March when my sub is due for renewal to downgrade back down to a standard sub, especially as I keep getting thwarted on military 'Hints' which tell me I'd have to upgrade even more to view them (I didn't and I won't).

With this latest 'investment' firm buying in, I'm wondering if we're just becoming a cash cow but will gradually have more and more deducted from our service.

I hate it when a site that you've previously really valued goes into this money grabbing mode.

Meanwhile, as I say, hats off to you stalwarts - I'm done! 

[Galium]

I've been going through all matches below 8cM, but I have three tests to do this on, so am filtering out all except those with public linked trees.

Those who have been there for a year or more without any tree at all aren't likely to put one there now, and although I may be missing something by not checking all the private and unlinked trees - I don't think I have time for them. It's taking me long enough as it is.  At least if somebody has a public linked tree there's a chance I'll find out how the other person is related.

[bradburyd]

Since you can't specify decimal points in the search ranges, if you want (say) all the 6.1 cM matches you have to say 6 to 6 and then page through (potentially) thousands of entries to get to the ones you want. BUT Ancestry are obviously now being swamped with traffic and giving the message :
"Our backend services are overtaxed at the moment and we are unable to retrieve all your matches. We apologize for the inconvenience, please try again later".

[jillruss]

well, that wasn't predictable, was it? 

[Gadget]

I've just been looking at some of my new/unviewed matches. I see that they are  going to decimal for matches below 10 now. Have others noticed this and  when did it occur?

Is this ominous or are they just giving us a little more info 

Gadget

Add- I must have missed a lot of posts - I see durhamgirl posted it pages ago!  Sorry 

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=834432.msg7004923#msg7004923





 

[Flemming]

Having added coloured dots and/or notes to the <8cM matches, what happens if you accidentally remove the dot/note - does the match evaporate in a puff of smoke, never to be retrieved again?

[LizzieL]

I suspect it might. But it might stay if your match reciprocates and tags you.