Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM

[Janethepain]

Dont know about anone else, but I am finding Ancestry slightly more stable since the CM decimal place rejig on Monday/Tuesday.  Still very busy though. But touch wood was not 'thrown out/back to the beginning' of my list at all yesterday.

I am down to 6.5 on my list, and when I finish them, that's me. On to my Dad's list!!

[Gadget]

I'm half way through the 6.4s. I should finish by the weekend. My wrist hurts if I do too many!

[LizzieL]

I'm only at 7.4 - long way to go.
Before the decimal place was added, I thought I only had 9 common ancestors in the 6 and 7 range. But now it's 14 because I have an extra 5 in the high 7s which was previously rounded to 8. These 14  represent 24% of my total "common ancestor" matches. Too many to lose in my opinion. But now saved by adding them to groups.

[melba_schmelba]

Just had a new common ancestor pop up at just over 7 cM. And have verified it is likely 'real' because I have access to other cousins DNA related to this same branch which they both also match. Sorry but I simply don't believe there is a honest reason for these removals, to 'help' us, other than, by, as Roberta Estes found of DNA Explained, was carefully hidden in the middle of the white paper, ' Storage' issues . As has also been pointed out in other forums, a lot of Ancestry matches are artificially reduced in size using the Timber algorithm, because Ancestry has determined you have common ancestors in highly endogamous populations i.e. Ashkenazi Jews, Amish etc. (probably often, wrongly), so the argument against many of the sub 8cM matches may be bogus from the beginning.

[Gadget]

I totally agree, melba 

I'm not sure if others have noticed but I've found that there seems to be a higher proportion of large trees among my low cM matches than the higher ones.  It may be just coincidence but interesting!

[CelticMom]

So frustrating, I am never going to be able to colour code all my below 8cm's in time it's just too time consuming.

I have made so many matches below 8cm.

I actually sent a complaint on to ancestry, they replied but no valid reason for doing this. Other than to say they have extended when they will delete them so people can add notes etc to the ones they want to keep.

That doesn't solve any new ones we gets after this date though does it?

[pharmaT]

So frustrating, I am never going to be able to colour code all my below 8cm's in time it's just too time consuming.

I have made so many matches below 8cm.

I actually sent a complaint on to ancestry, they replied but no valid reason for doing this. Other than to say they have extended when they will delete them so people can add notes etc to the ones they want to keep.

That doesn't solve any new ones we gets after this date though does it?

I noticed they ahve added the decimal point, I am still on 7.9 so I don't really have time to properly analyse just going down the list trying to put in a group that I have called unknown.  If I'm really lucky I'll get to 7.8 before deleted.

[melba_schmelba]

Just a reminder that Ancestry DNA is 20% off i.e. £59 + P&P until the end of today 11:59 BST

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/dna/

[Kimbrey]

This is the latest from Roberta Estees Blog (found it in my Spam!!)

Does it help or confuse the whole issue more


https://dna-explained.com/2020/08/09/august-hot-news-ancestry-match-tagging-script-dna-sales-

Kim