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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Clusters
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 12:15 BST (UK) »Where does this clusters appear, do you need Pro tools?
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Clusters
« on: Thursday 03 July 25 12:09 BST (UK) »From what I remember reading the instructions from the first time I opened it, to be included matches are over 65cM who match at least 20cM with each other.
If that's the case the scope is so small as to be effectively useless. Someone with experience could cluster such matches in less than an hour.
What is more important are more remote clusters. A test will have clusters where the largest match is say 12-20cM, where the MRCA is probably around the 1700 AD window. Throw in an interface that pinpoints common localities, surnames and common ancestors among the matches and they have a useful tool to dramatically save time and help people. That would also generate them more revenue.
Agreed
I have 37 matches above 65cM and I know how all of them fit into my tree. They need to reduce the 65cM to 20cM.
However, they did say that soon users will be able to specify clusters based on a range of cM.
I would like to point out that yesterday when I first noticed the clusters were there, I only had two clusters but now I have three.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Clusters
« on: Wednesday 02 July 25 03:40 BST (UK) »
Some users may not get this feature until December 2025
https://support.ancestry.com.au/s/article/Science-of-Matches-by-Cluster
https://support.ancestry.com.au/s/article/Science-of-Matches-by-Cluster
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Ancestry Clusters
« on: Wednesday 02 July 25 02:31 BST (UK) »
From what I remember reading the instructions from the first time I opened it, to be included matches are over 65cM who match at least 20cM with each other.
What I have noticed from checking the 16 accounts I have DNA access to is that immediate family are omitted - parent/child, full and half siblings etc. Aunt/uncle and nephew/niece, first cousins are included.
What I have noticed from checking the 16 accounts I have DNA access to is that immediate family are omitted - parent/child, full and half siblings etc. Aunt/uncle and nephew/niece, first cousins are included.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Ancestry Clusters
« on: Wednesday 02 July 25 01:45 BST (UK) »
Just noticed that I now have Ancestry clusters. Very disappointing at the moment because I only have two clusters, one paternal and one maternal. They are still working on it though so I hope to see a vast improvement.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Unwanted Thrulines suggestions
« on: Thursday 20 March 25 04:43 GMT (UK) »
You can filter the green rubbish out by using filters. Select "Ancestors in your linked tree" and you won't see all of the incorrect green ancestors.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: And the next Ancestry feature is.............
« on: Monday 17 March 25 00:38 GMT (UK) »
In general, it is a group of people who match each other. It could be one MRCA but could span a couple of generations.
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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: And the next Ancestry feature is.............
« on: Friday 14 March 25 22:27 GMT (UK) »
I just watched that and was going to post it, but you beat me to it. :-)
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The Common Room / Re: Ancestry Tree Rating
« on: Friday 14 February 25 20:26 GMT (UK) »Does anyone know what the ratings are out of? Mine come out as 9.7 and I know one of mine is not great.
It is out of 10 but it is labelled "Elite". My tree was 9.7 when I first got pro tools but I went through all of the supposed errors and fixed it up. It went to 9.8 then 9.9 then on to Elite.