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Quote from: Glen in Tinsel Kni on Wednesday 09 July 25 08:23 BST (UK)

I've had that every time and have to hit refresh.

Just tried the kit of a removed cousin that I can access, match list on that kit correctly shows the relationship between myself and my half sib but the cluster report predicts uncle and niece.

The ranges for half-siblings and uncle/niece overlap, and are very similar.

There's no consistency to it, in match lists some people see us as half sibs, others as uncle/niece but it can be different again in clusters. Confirming the correct relationship on my match list & linking us in my tree to our father has no bearing on the predictions others see.
I'm 19 years her junior but remain somewhat mystified as to why an incorrect prediction doesn't favour the more obvious aunt/nephew given the age gap.

The 20cM shared match threshold hides so much it can really stop research stone dead.

I have a mystery 42cM match, he shares 604cM with 'SC' so I see them as shared matches on my account but I only share 15 with SC so the mystery match uses his account but doesn't see the connection. He also misses other matches to SC because of the 20cM threshold.

Thankfully we shared our dna results and I've been able to identify 7 mutual matches so far that the 20cM threshold manage to hide even when analysing match lists of each person individually. The papertrail of my mystery match doesn't line up with the DNA and I suspect an NPE somewhere. All 7 matches trace back to the same common ancestor which seems to confirm my suspicions but had we not shared our results my mystery match would still be in the dark.

That's a great idea, Glen!

I use the suffix box (for the "Junior"s) but I'm sure there's some other spot where I can plug in the cMs.

For WATO+ purposes Jonny Perl hs just added the option to have WATO search for cM  figure entered in the name field, from his fb post

'Hi all. I just added a feature that I had definitely talked about adding years ago but which had somehow fallen through the net:
When importing a GEDCOM in WATO plus, you can now specify that you'd like to look for shared cMs in the name field (e.g. some people put them in the suffix field)
If you select this option, if WATO finds cMs, it will import the person as a match with this number of cMs shared and will strip the cMs part out of the name
So for example John Smith 23cM would be imported as a match called John Smith sharing 23cMs.

If this feature is useful I can add it to the old WATO as well. As an aside, a longstanding feature in the Coverage tool is that if it finds cMs like this, it will mark the person as tested when you import.'
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