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Hi Biggles50 and DavidNichols,

yes I am in a way at least with this.. But once I start it has to be completed.  Bit like a dog with a big bone. 

Re this 7x7 cluster i started once to work out who matched who and why and where. but not much info to work with.. Trying a new idea..... hope it works better.   
Essnell.

if you haven't already, ProTools is worth investing in. Even if only for a month or two. I've found it helps no end, to get the the bottom of how clusters hang together.

Yes, I agree, it would have been good for ProTools to show the label on BOTH sides not just your own column.
I didn't know the two sides of your own matches came unlabelled - when my friend gave me access to help, they were already labelled, so I assumed this was an Ancestry tag.
Yes, we are going to message the match concerned. My friend already had contact before I got involved, so thankfully can make a good judgement on whether that is ok. Makes a difference as to whether she is my friend's 1C1R or her gt-Aunt (i.e. the matches nephew is likely my friend's dad).

Biggles,

Thanks for confirming. Saves me spending ages trying to find a different view that might include it.
Sadly in all c.200 matches, only 1 is in two clusters, but nowhere near the ones in question.

Sorry if these are basic questions. I have not been working with DNA result for very long.

1) On Ancestry (with ProTools), in the same way as Ancestry advises whether your matches are on the Maternal or Paternal side, is there any way of seeing whether a shared match is on the mat or pat side of the sharer?

2) As mentioned on posts before, I am helping a friend to discover who her father is, via her DNA results. Leaving aside her maternal matches (as that side of things is fairly well documented), she has around 200 matches of 20cM or above. All but one are labelled by Anc as 3rd or 4th cousins, that one being labelled 1C1R (we're expecting the 1R to be my friend, owing to the ages of them both). The c.200 matches grouping in to 17 clusters (with a handful of stragglers), varying between 3x3 and 47x47. Of these clusters, 6 of them are also shared by the "1C1R". I am working on the theory that these 6 clusters would all be ancestor clusters of the "1C1R". I have so far managed to connect 2 of the clusters, tree-wise, and these are connected via the 1C1R's father. I have now found that another of the 6 links via the 1C1R's mother. Translating this to my own tree (to try to make sense of this), barring an earlier (but as yet unfound) pedigree collapse, the only thing I have come up with is that the 1C1R is an incorrect guess by Anc. The match is of 686cM across 28 segments. I am thinking the true label should be G-Aunt or similar.
I would be grateful if the experts here that have helped me no end so far (you know who you are) could say whether they feel I am on the right track (or not).

Thanks in advance