Is anyone else's "SideView Technology" mixed up?
I have tested both my mother and my father separately and manage their results.
I am quite lucky because the family of my mother's mother was almost exclusively from Lincolnshire and the family of my mother's father was from the south of England (Wiltshire/Somerset/Berkshire). For this reason, it has been very easy to separate my mother's maternal and paternal matches. Also, she has 2 second cousins who have tested: 1 on her father's side and 1 on her mother's.
However, Ancestry has lumped some of my mother's maternal matches into her paternal matches. They are clearly related to her on her mother's side; their ancestors hail from Lincolnshire and they match my mother's maternal second cousin. They even have the correct common ancestors via ThruLines!
In fact, other than my mother's paternal second cousin, who they have correctly identified as being a paternal match, virtually all the identified matches are from her mother's side!
Having said that, most of the matches are still unassigned (over 12,000), so maybe there are a few teething problems.
Weirdly enough, my father's side is very accurate, even though his parents were born only 20 miles away from each other! Thankfully, despite being close geographically, they obviously don't share any recent ancestors, which makes things a lot less complicated when sorting matches!
I am disappointed, though, as I always look forward to new features
Queenie
