« Reply #5 on: Thursday 05 October 23 10:42 BST (UK) »
Uploading raw data from Ancestry and taking advantage of the tools you usually have to pay for, saving a few is what I am suggesting. I wasn’t suggesting anyone pay for a My Heritage DNA test.
But since you mentioned it, for me, Ancestry has been disappointing - very few of my matches have trees, a few have only two or three names, and virtually no one responds to my messages.
Unless the infomation is hidden away or I’ve missed it (likely), you can’t even see what country your match lives in or their approximate age, which might at least have given a starting point to do your own research to try to find where your connection is.
I’m probably just unlucky match wise.
It's frustrating, isn't it? I just check for each match identified by Ancestry to see if there are any further shared matches. I just concentrate on these groupings
The one bonus with the My Heritage matching is that you can see what the relationship might be between two of your matches, which you can't with Ancestry (or I've just not worked out how to do it!). So it is worth loading your ancestry test onto My Heritage when they have these offers. I expect they want to grow their reference group by importing Ancestry test results.
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