Ancestry shared matches - more added

[kiterunner]

Yes, it's gone back to the old list for me too. Maybe they released it by accident! I wish I'd looked at more of them while I had the chance instead of going out shopping.

Originally Posted by kiterunner

Yes, it's gone back to the old list for me too. Maybe they released it by accident! I wish I'd looked at more of them while I had the chance instead of going out shopping.

How does it work though, it confused me.

[kiterunner]

I haven't seen anything official about it, Maggie, but my guess is that whereas the list of shared matches with, say "Mr X", usually only shows people who are 4th-6th cousins or closer to both of you, it was temporarily also including people who were 4th-6th cousins or closer to you, but more distantly related to "Mr X".

I did send in some feedback while it was doing that. I suggested that it should either flag those which were only distantly related to the other person, or sort them in descending order of amount of DNA shared with the other person, though I wouldn't want it to actually show the specific amounts. But just so we would get an idea of roughly how closely they were related to the other person.

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I haven't seen anything official about it, Maggie, but my guess is that whereas the list of shared matches with, say "Mr X", usually only shows people who are 4th-6th cousins or closer to both of you, it was temporarily also including people who were 4th-6th cousins or closer to you, but more distantly related to "Mr X".

I did send in some feedback while it was doing that. I suggested that it should either flag those which were only distantly related to the other person, or sort them in descending order of amount of DNA shared with the other person, though I wouldn't want it to actually show the specific amounts. But just so we would get an idea of roughly how closely they were related to the other person.

Ahh okay thank you, it confused me.

The shared matches list is temporarily unavailable for me so perhaps they are working on it.

[kiterunner]

I saw a copy of a post from an ancestry staff member who confirmed it was including more distant matches to the other person and they said it was done by mistake and that's why it was changed back to how it was before. I quite liked it myself! Though it wouldn't be so useful if we didn't have the other list to compare it to.

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I saw a copy of a post from an ancestry staff member who confirmed it was including more distant matches to the other person and they said it was done by mistake and that's why it was changed back to how it was before. I quite liked it myself! Though it wouldn't be so useful if we didn't have the other list to compare it to.

Oh that's a shame, why change it back if it works.

[Kit]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I saw a copy of a post from an ancestry staff member who confirmed it was including more distant matches to the other person and they said it was done by mistake and that's why it was changed back to how it was before. I quite liked it myself! Though it wouldn't be so useful if we didn't have the other list to compare it to.

Send in feedback and comment on the post that you like the change. It seems they are listening to feedback.

[kiterunner]

I already submitted feedback before they changed it back, Toni.