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I don't think it's unfair to say that it's another DNA 'feature' that many think is the answer to everything when it's nothing of the sort. With a large and robust set of matches it may offer a bit of time saving but I still feel that it provides no more answers than diligent grouping and tree building in most cases.

I completely agree!!! Correct me if I'm wrong but this feature does not provide us with any NEW information about Matches or anything for that matter - it just slices and dices information already available and presents it in a new way.  Like I say, please correct me if I am missing something

Just look at how many Matches have minimal or no trees - linked or unlinked you have and I would hazard that the lion's share of those dont give a tinker's cuss about who they Match with - hence zero dialogue with Matches, either way.

I also find that many of those who have photographs and/or state that they are willing to help on their profile tend NOT to respond - virtue signalling I guess.

Btw, today I received a new Ancestry message that simply said " How do you know William Saunders, my grandfather?" .  That attitude combined with the fact I manage over 40 different trees under my Ancestry name means I'm not particularly eager to help out any time soon

Spooky!!!  My 2xGGM was Mary Charnock from near Wigan.  Her mother in law, my 3xGGM, was Ellen Gaskell who was born in North Wales which has always intrigued me as that entire line is resolutely Wigan based going back generations. 

Acrylic yarn wasn't invented until 1940s

Maybe Bradford was ahead of the game

E C CRICK had a cottage to let in Oct 1911:

"COTTAGE, 2 rooms and kitchen, every convenience, rent 12s., 152 Grafton-street Woollahra. Apply E.C. CRICK 14 Castlereagh-street, city"
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15279352

Thanks Maddy!!  He was a most busy and "industrious" man!!