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General => Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing => Topic started by: LizzieL on Saturday 09 April 22 13:58 BST (UK)
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My tree has quite clearly got my 4 x g-grandparents, John Christopher and Sarah Slaughter, however when I look at Thrulines, it has green boxes with suggested potential ancestors instead of this couple. I had the same suggested couple before I had identified my actual 4 x ggp, but they disappeared and were replaced with the correct couple after I added them to my tree. But now the incorrect couple are back. The incorrect couple are actually the son and daughter-i-l of John Christopher and Sarah, but so many trees have them as my 3x g-grandmother's parents and not as her brother and s-i-l.
Has Ancestry been doing some more "improvements" recently? I have noticed new matches seem to have dried up again which often co-incides some new feature on the way.
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I haven't noticed any recent changes in my Thrulines, Lizzie. I've tried to find a way of dismissing the potentials but there doesn't seem to be a way.
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Thrulines come from the majority of Ancestry trees so I think the only way to get rid of them is to convince all the other people who have this couple in the incorrect place that they are wrong.
Means contacting them all with records to prove it though - and hoping they make the necessary changes.
Pheno
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In my case, it's only one very distant match. I have the marriage certificate of my ancestor and the one that is supposed to link us and they are not the same person. Her tree is very poorly sourced.
I would just like to remove the potential link from thrulines.
PS - it's only a minor irritant :)
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I can understand getting these potential Ancestor hints if I had left my 4 x ggp off my tree, but I have them on MY tree, but they seem to have been over-ridden on Thrulines by the wrong couple.
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I've looked on the next generation on TL and it has the couple who are my actual 5 x ggp ( different branch) becoming potential as if someone has suggested them.
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I've just been examining the link again. The potential match (13cMs) hasn't even got my 2x grandmother in her tree. She does have links to another line but not to the line that Ancestry have allocated her to. They've linked us via other trees, who aren't even my DNA matches ::)
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I find the "potentials" so frustrating I don't even look at them anymore. I have a persistent gg/grandmother that comes up. I have placed notes on the dozen or so people who have added her and her husband to the effect that the daughter Ruth is not related to my Ruth. I have a birth cert and a will as proof that their daughter Ruth married someone else.
Might as well bang my head against the wall as the list keeps growing!
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If they introduced an 'accept; maybe; refuse' choice for potentials, it would solve the problem.
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But has anyone else had their own "actuals" replaced with "potentials"?
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Checked thrulines again just now, the correct snestors have come back. What is going on? Did Ancestry take notice of my complaint and find there was a problem with their algorithm, or whatever it is, and restore it back to what it used to be. Now the only potentials are where I haven't got any people at all, not replacing my actual ones.
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How's this for a mess - I've just had a look at my thrulines and this one is new!!
The same person seems to be a cousin to himself. How they got there, I'm not sure because my cousin has the same tree as me but somehow James, our common ancestor, has two fathers. Where they got this illogical daftness from, I do not know!
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It's not just Thrulines, something odd is really going on!
I've just had a new match at 41 cMs over 5 segments and assessed by Ancestry as 4th-6th cousin. After checking her tree and finding a common surname, I went to look for more details about her by clicking on her name (in blue). When her details come up, it tells me that she
is either not a DNA match or has not taken a DNA test
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She is not managed by anyone so it should give the usual information in a box with our names and predicted relationship and shared DNA!!
I've been doing this ever since I had my resuls 3-4 years ago so I'm nota novice.
What is going on ??? ::)
Add - she is appearing in common ancestors and thus in Thrulines! Using her tree, she is a 3C1R
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It's not just Thrulines, something odd is really going on!
I've just had a new match at 41 cMs over 5 segments and assessed by Ancestry as 4th-6th cousin. After checking her tree and finding a common surname, I went to look for more details about her by clicking on her name (in blue). When her details come up, it tells me that she
is either not a DNA match or has not taken a DNA test
.
She is not managed by anyone so it should give the usual information in a box with our names and predicted relationship and shared DNA!!
I've been doing this ever since I had my resuls 3-4 years ago so I'm nota novice.
What is going on ??? ::)
Add - she is appearing in common ancestors and thus in Thrulines! Using her tree, she is a 3C1R
Never bothered with Thrulines gadget, but I checked some profiles and the DNA links see to be showing up OK for all the shared accounts. Have you tried deleting cache/cookies, swapping browsers etc.?
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You're asking me that - really ::) ::) ::)
Grandmother and eggs comes to mind.
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You're asking me that - really ::) ::) ::)
Grandmother and eggs comes to mind.
Well perhaps just a temporary bug then.