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Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« on: Saturday 09 April 22 13:58 BST (UK) »
My tree has quite clearly got my 4 x g-grandparents, John Christopher and Sarah Slaughter, however when I look at Thrulines, it has  green boxes with suggested potential ancestors instead of this couple.  I had the same suggested couple before I had identified my actual 4 x ggp, but they disappeared and were replaced with the correct couple after I added them to my tree. But now the incorrect couple are back. The incorrect couple are actually the son and daughter-i-l of John Christopher and Sarah, but so many trees have them as my 3x g-grandmother's parents and not as her brother and s-i-l.
Has Ancestry been doing some more "improvements" recently? I have noticed new matches seem to have dried up again which often co-incides some new feature on the way.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 09 April 22 14:07 BST (UK) »
I haven't noticed any recent changes in my Thrulines, Lizzie. I've tried to find a way of dismissing the potentials but there doesn't seem to be a way. 

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Re: Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 09 April 22 14:13 BST (UK) »
Thrulines come from the majority of Ancestry trees so I think the only way to get rid of them is to convince all the other people who have this couple in the incorrect place that they are wrong.

Means contacting them all with records to prove it though - and hoping they make the necessary changes.

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Re: Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 09 April 22 14:19 BST (UK) »
In my case, it's only one very distant match. I have the marriage certificate of my ancestor and the one that is supposed to link us and  they are not the same person. Her tree is very poorly sourced.
I would just like to remove the potential link from thrulines.

PS - it's only a minor irritant  :)
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Re: Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 09 April 22 14:37 BST (UK) »
I can understand getting these potential Ancestor hints if I had left my 4 x ggp off my tree, but I have them on MY tree, but they seem to have been over-ridden on Thrulines by the wrong couple.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 09 April 22 14:50 BST (UK) »
I've looked on the next generation on TL and it has the couple who are my actual 5 x ggp ( different branch) becoming potential as if someone has suggested them.
Berks / Oxon: Eltham, Annetts, Wiltshire (surname not county), Hawkins, Pembroke, Partridge
Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 09 April 22 18:18 BST (UK) »
I've just been examining the link again. The potential match (13cMs) hasn't even got my 2x grandmother in her tree. She does have links to another line but not to the line that Ancestry have allocated her to.  They've linked us via other trees, who aren't even my DNA matches  ::)
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Re: Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 10 April 22 23:11 BST (UK) »
I find the "potentials" so frustrating I don't even look at them anymore. I have a persistent gg/grandmother that comes up. I have placed notes on the dozen or so people who have added her and her husband to the effect that the daughter Ruth is not related to my Ruth. I have a birth cert and a will as proof that their daughter Ruth married someone else.
Might as well bang my head against the wall as the list keeps growing!
Main names:
Scotland (Travellers) - Townsend/Townsley, Conway, Stewart
Lanark and Stirling - Jeffrey.
Northumberland/ Durham - Newton, Nixon, Sharp, Greaves, Naters
Warwickshire and London - Garfield.
Ireland, Co. Kerry - Marah/Meara/Mara, McClure, Howard, Melvin
Lincs - Smith, Vinter

other offshoots - Berry, Steven, Craig, Atkins, Fuller, , Stewart, Conway, Heather,

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Re: Is anyone else having problems with thrulines on Ancestry again?
« Reply #8 on: Monday 11 April 22 07:46 BST (UK) »
If they  introduced an 'accept; maybe; refuse' choice for potentials, it would solve the problem.
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