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« on: Thursday 26 February 26 12:54 GMT (UK) »
I'm looking at this from a different angle. I too have now been seeing joint matches down to 6cm ( I marked them not to be deleted maybe 6 years ago?).
I have not been able to spend as much time on Ancestry (the app and the hobby too), for about a year, as my Dad died (nearly 99), and I am his executor (of his will), and because finally and fortuitously, at nearly 70 I have become a grand mother for the first time! So I don't have much spare time.
Any way, I look after 3 accounts, my own, my Dad's and my maternal cousin's. I keep waking up realising I have not checked my matches for 3 or 4 weeks, I will spend the best part of a week checking through all the new ones for each account, and then leave it for another 3 weeks and repeat!
Or at least I did, but now with all these extra un-viewed matches showing on the vast majority of new matches, I feel like I am drowning in 'quick checks'!
These extra matches are of 2 (ultimately one) sources, the first are the under 20cm matches you didn't see, for matches you have already checked, in my case those that went live at the same time or after my account went live. Secondly, the under 20 cm matches of matches I didn't check, because,they went live before I did, so never appeared on the new matches list.
There is a third group as well, that is the over 20cM matches from before I went live, but these would have appeared on my original match list, and I have been through them with a fine toothed comb many a time!
What do others think? I know it depends on how many matches you have, and therefore how feasible it is to check every single one, but for me, being nearly 100% Irish/southwest Scottish, due to emigration to Scotland from Ireland from 1800 on, and one or two from before, I have great Scottish records to use, and many many emigres, from Ireland, and onward from Scotland, who went to all corners of this world, but mainly to the USA, where DNA testing is much more commom than here.
So I have lots and lots of matches already to look into, even before this flood of small matches appeared. I kind of think that the release of these matches may actually be permanent.
Anyway, my point seems to be that the vast majority of these under 20cM matches, and most are u 10 cM or under, only have shared matches of the same cM-age, therefore with no indication of which part of my tree they come from, except from Mother/Father sides. Even if the occasional joint match shows it has a 'family group' match to one of my lines, there is no real evidence that it is through that family line that they match me, it could be another line entirely.
It would be lovely to hear how others feel/see this quandary of mine. I would love to be convinced it is worthwhile continuing, though exactly where I would fit it in, I don't know.
Jane
PS If you think this is bad, you should see my emails!
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But, hey, it is not too bad.