Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM

[LizzieL]

OK if you tag them they will stay, but do you have time to check them all and add them to a group before August? I have thousands and have been working on them for several hours a day, but hardly made any inroads on them

[durhamgirl73]

I look after three accounts and have already looked at every single distant person to see if we have a shared match - green dot added - with the changes coming all I have done is put a coloured dot next to those with a common ancestor or if I've added a note - am I going through all 6cm, 7cm and possibly 8cm again? - no way as I can't be bothered!

Could they not have deleted 6cm and 7cm for people who haven't been on ancestry for months and leave those who are on way too much keep theirs?

[youngtug]

If you just tag the ones with public linked trees there are not so many. And if you discount those with just 2 or 3 three people, for example, then there are a lot less.

[Gadget]

If you just tag the ones with public linked trees there are not so many. And if you discount those with just 2 or 3 three people, for example, then there are a lot less.

 

That's what I'm doing but adding some larger unlinked ones that look possible

[durhamgirl73]

Ok I will too 

[luvtotravel]

Just to confirm, I should tag 6-8 cM matches if they have surnames in their tree which may be relevant to my research.  I did message a couple of private very large tree holders just in case!  There are several trees of interest to me with no direct ancestor but they do have ancestors with the same surnames as mine same location but in the 1700's.  I should keep those?

[durhamgirl73]

youngtug - how many did you tag with public linked trees? I started doing this but deciding whether to continue.

[melba_schmelba]

Another idea of saving matches, you could use spousal names of ancestral siblings or cousins that you suspect had offspring but that you (or that match) haven't traced a connection to you yet, if you really are a glutton for punishment!

[youngtug]

I am not counting