Shared matches feature on Ancestry

[durhamgirl73]

John Smith, you and B could be connected through paternal line
John Smith, you and A C D E could be connected through maternal line

you can be connected to a person more than one way

[GingerVicky]

Yes that's true. Is very confusing but I think I'm sort of getting my head round it all.
Thank you.

[Gadget]

As I think I said earlier, you have to do a shared matches procedure with each of your matches. You can then allocate them to different groups, using the colour coding facility.

You have to do multiple shared match runs to find out groups of relatives - a bit like Venn diagrams 

[GingerVicky]

Good advice. I will definitely do that

[guest189040]

I have been using Shared Matches for a while.

I started with the highest cM match, then select Shared Matches.

Next I create a Group based on the match (named as THEIR NAME & ME) and assign a colour to them.

Each shared match is then set with the Group colour.

Additionally the Add Message is used with each Group member if they are included in a Floating Branch in my Tree.

Once the DNA match is linked in my tree I assign the Star to the match to signify Linked In My Tree and I change the message to display who they link to with regard to our common ancestor pair.

My highest cM match is assigned to a current total of six Groups but you do need to check periodically as other DNA Matches regularly show up.

This process can be seen as a variation of the Leeds method but that is more suited to matches with 100+ cM.

Hope this helps.