The other people have to have their trees linked to their DNA profile too, to be Ancestry Hints.
Dad has 15 ancestry hints but over 300 matches.
He has lots of "unlinked trees", which you can look at with a sub. Some of the linked trees only have 5 or 6 people, all of them private as living, and totally useless.
Likewise, DNA circles only work on linked trees.
I have been working my way through the ancestry hints trees and adding to my database, offline. Then I will start on the useful unlinked trees.
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