Ancestry shared matches - more added

[kiterunner]

I'm slowly working through my list of matches to see who is a shared match to whom, and a couple of the most recent ones I've looked at had quite strange shared match lists, where some were on my mother's side and some on my father's side.

Of course I realise this can happen.

But then another one that I looked at gives my Dad and "Joe Bloggs" as shared matches on the "Compare" screen, but then when I click through to the next page (called "Ancestry DNA Match Details" on the browser tab) and click to view shared matches, it says I don't have any with that person.

Then when I view the Compare screen for "Joe Bloggs", it lists my Dad and two other people as shared matches, but I have notes I made when I looked at "Joe Bloggs" before and it said no shared matches. And again, if I click through to the other page where it shows shared matches, it does still say there are none.

"Joe Bloggs" is estimated as 5th-8th cousin to my Dad and 4th-6th cousin to me, because of a second small segment. And as far as I knew up to now, it would therefore not show Dad as a shared match because the shared matches have to be at least 4th-6th cousin to both of us.

So, are the "shared matches" on the Compare screen wrong at the moment, or are they trying something out on that screen, but not the other one, whereby they show a shared match if they are at least 4th-6th cousin to you but more distantly related to the other person? Anyone have any idea? I don't know whether to give up for now or carry on!