Using DNA Clusters

[Phoenix]

I've succumbed to Pro Tools. Of all the trees I manage, only my aunt shows anything theoretically useful.

I have five clusters for her, all on her father's side. A huge cluster for the Rileys and four smaller ones.

Each time I look at them, I have to work out from first principles which branch of the family they relate.

Does anyone know if there will be a way to colour code or name them in the future?

Bizarrely, two cousins who ought to be more closely related to each other than to me appear in different clusters.

[kiterunner]

As I understand it, the current system generates the clusters from scratch every time, so there would be no way to label them for subsequent use. But maybe a future update will change things.

[Phoenix]

Thanks, Kite. I wonder if matches will be moved from one cluster to another in the future?
The clusters are quite bizarre and opaque, three of them being descendants of Dad's aunts and uncles. Hopefully they will be a bit more revealing once they lower the limits.

[Phoenix]

As if by magic:

"Coming soon! Create custom clusters with specific matches and cM ranges"

[Mary from Italy]

That sounds promising.

[Phoenix]

Ancestry must have read my thoughts: the ridiculous cluster that yesterday separated two cousins has disappeared, and they have been reunited. Not sure why that has happened, though several people no longer appear within the clusters at all, but it is now rather more intelligible

[Glen TK]

They've had the spanners twiddling over the past week, I have a couple of new clusters on Fri/Sat but no new matches for days but since yesterday evening over 30 matches.

[kiterunner]

They have started "rolling out" custom clusters. This link gives info about how they work:
https://support.ancestry.co.uk/s/art...E3NTUxMTExMzA.

Not everybody has them yet.

[Phoenix]

Thanks, Kite. This will hopefully prove useful

[Glen TK]

Not sure if the custom cluster info makes much sense, I have a decent match that doesn't make it into ordinary clusters but their sibling does, when running custom clusters with their sibling as a sidekick I get a group of about 45 names though half aren't in the shared match list of the main or sidekick match. (custom cM range I tried is is 40-160). Two of the names in the cluster allegedly have no matches at all.