I am more generous than discarding matches less than 35cMs.
I have a couple of positive DNA matches at 7 and 8cMs, but they have family trees, pretty well researched that lead to a common ancestor - with no trees or common ancestor worked out by Ancestry, its just too exhausting to try and find the match.
There must be people with whom we have a very small match who are as genealogically minded us and and who put their whole family tree up - they are the people we want to match with and follow up.
I have some matches in the 20-30cMs range with over 10,000 people in their trees, and not one name matches anyone in my 5000+ tree. Mostly they are US people, all the way back to the early 1700s which puzzles me greatly.
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