DNA Matches - ancestry

[maggie_4_7]

There is a new feature which allows you to identify which side of the family they descend from ie Mother or Father.

Not sure everyone has it yet, I do it just started today.

Its a label on right hand side of DNA match "Do you recognise them?" Either YES or Learn More.

[Jill]

Not available for me yet, I will have to continue with my pink spot/blue spot method.

[Phoenix]

Thanks for the head up, Maggie. Not got the feature yet, but I look forward to it!

[maggie_4_7]

Well I learnt about it on a Ancestry discussion group on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, someone who had it did a screen shot but at that time I did not but I Iogged in this morning and it is now there.

[kiterunner]

I've had it for a week or two now.

[ElizabethHerts]

I've got it and have used it this morning.

For example, I have selected one chap and allocated him as on my father's side, second cousin, and he is now marked as such.

[Phoenix]

I have now got this feature, and I cannot see that it is of any practical use, except for Ancestry itself. It does not appear to enhance sorting. All it appears to do is notify Ancestry whether their algorithms are accurate.
Please disabuse me, somebody.

[Mary from Italy]

That was my impression too.

[maggie_4_7]

I have now got this feature, and I cannot see that it is of any practical use, except for Ancestry itself. It does not appear to enhance sorting. All it appears to do is notify Ancestry whether their algorithms are accurate.
Please disabuse me, somebody.

Perhaps if you are looking for a missing parent/sibling descendents or missing ancestor you can filter high matches into the side of the family you know.

[Kit]

For a first cousin once removed it changed the relationship from 1-2 cousin to the exact relationship. It does not change things for the other person. I guess it makes looking at your matches a bit clearer.

If you have tested a parent though the system already tells you if a match belongs to one side or the other, down to 20cms.

I think I'd like the option to turn this on or off.

[maggie_4_7]

I don't have a parent to test.

When I had my DNA done I already knew who my father was but some do not, had I not I would now or at least know what family he came from. My high matches are all on my mother's side though.

I don't know how widespread this is but I am beginning to see on a group I belong to more and more people getting quite high DNA matches. They have started from the position they know all their direct ancestors but then find out that what they thought, because it was on paper is true, actually isn't leading to another direct ancestor entirely for part of the family.

I have DNA matches, not too high but high enough, that I have no idea where they fit in. There is now a massive group of them in the USA that all share ancestors and me and I have no idea where they fit in, this group gets bigger every day. I believe it was probably a descendent of a direct ancestors' sibling that fathered a child with someone that wasn't his wife but probably someone else's can't think of any other reason.

[Phoenix]

I, my cousin and sib's child each have a (different) huge, mutually related group. They tend to be around the 20-30 cM range. I have kept them, in case I find a breakthrough link. Because they share so little DNA with us, we could all be related to all three groups, just at a vanishingly distant remove.

[maggie_4_7]

I, my cousin and sib's child each have a (different) huge, mutually related group. They tend to be around the 20-30 cM range. I have kept them, in case I find a breakthrough link. Because they share so little DNA with us, we could all be related to all three groups, just at a vanishingly distant remove.

I am going through mine now, one by one to see if they actually match with anyone on my confirmed DNA connections, at least which side, and confirm they all match to one another. I have 70 of them.