Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM

[LizzieL]

The commonest method of rounding is
 .5 - .9 = round up
 .4 and below= round down

(including the .999999  and .000000001 recurring)

Yes, as I said in reply 43 we're going to lose the half of the 8's which are really in the range 7.5 to 7.9. And what improvements are we going to get in exchange?
Length of longest segment! Most of my matches are one segment only, so unless something odd happens the total match is going to be the same as the longest segment. We won't know which chromosome or where on that chromosome - so not really much use.

[Gadget]

Maybe we should stop worrying and get our fingers working with the colour codes

 

[LizzieL]

been doing that - run out of colours. 

[Petros]

Most of my 6 or 7 cM common ancestor matches are 6th cousins or 5th cousins once removed. However, one 4th cousin is only a 6 cM match

[Janethepain]

Bit confused here, having checked my most common family surnames (about 20, back to at least 3rd great grand parent level, I have a few duplicates/triplicates  among those names), in the 8-6 cM ranges, and tagged them, I moved on to matches to my common ancestors, within those ranges, which I thought I read as a sensible job to do. 

However, when I look at my common ancestors, our matches stop at 20 cM. Have I misunderstood, this suggestion - I thought I was going to tag 6-8cM matches to my common ancestors - but how do you find them??

[Kimbrey]

This is Blaine Bettingers blog re this

https://thegeneticgenealogist.com/2020/07/17/losing-distant-matches-at-ancestrydna/

Kim

[familydar]

I may have missed something and apologies if I have.

Ancestry say that to stop them being ELIMINATED I should tag, group, message or add a note to any 6-7cM DNA matches that interest me.

After Ancestry have brought in their changes I will possibly revisit these small matches.  They should still be in my match list.  But are they still in the match's match list?  If not, and I message the person concerned, and if they are one of the small percentage of people who might actually reply, might their reply say something along the lines of "what DNA match?".

I'm hoping that Ancestry are using the word eliminated when what they mean is hidden, ie the match drops off the match list but if you click on the userid it shows that there is a small DNA match.  I guess we won't find out till after the event.

Jane :-)

[Janethepain]

I am pretty sure I have read, in comments above somewhere, that if you mark a match, so it doesnt  disappear ( ie colour code it or add notes etc.) then, not only does it stay in your match list, but you stay in the matches list too!

[familydar]

Hope so.  Thanks Janethepain