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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #153 on: Monday 31 August 20 22:01 BST (UK) »
About 9.50 pm - they seem to have run, whatever it was they were running, for me anyway. I've lost about 3.5 k matches from my own match list, with about 5k off both my Dad's and my cousin's lists!!
Allison - Rumford Stirlingshire & Ireland
Quinn - Rumford, Glasgow, Monklands & Tyrone
Convoy - Rumford, Monklands & Tyrone
Burke - Glasgow, Clifden Galway
Duffy - Cleland Lanarkshire, Monklands, Falkirk, Ireland
Curran - Cleland, Ireland
Reynolds - Cleland, Shettleston, Tollcross, Antrim
McDermott - Cleland, Shotts, (London)Derry

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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #154 on: Monday 31 August 20 22:07 BST (UK) »
About 9.50 pm - they seem to have run, whatever it was they were running, for me anyway. I've lost about 3.5 k matches from my own match list, with about 5k off both my Dad's and my cousin's lists!!
Confirmed all non tagged 6 & 7 cM matches are now hidden  :(.

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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #155 on: Monday 31 August 20 23:13 BST (UK) »
Do you think we should start saving our 8cM-9cM matches?

(just because these were given a decimal point like the 6cM-7cM matches)

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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #156 on: Monday 31 August 20 23:21 BST (UK) »
Do you think we should start saving our 8cM-9cM matches?

(just because these were given a decimal point like the 6cM-7cM matches)
Nooooo ;D  :o!!!!!


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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #157 on: Monday 31 August 20 23:26 BST (UK) »
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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #158 on: Monday 31 August 20 23:44 BST (UK) »
They are still showing photos of matches  that I presume are less than 8cm because they are not accessible.

I did still get a shared match of a shared match who is 7.5 but otherwise the small matches have gone
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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #159 on: Tuesday 01 September 20 08:47 BST (UK) »
Same here this morning. Yesterday I had 40k matches; today I have 19k. They've culled over 50% of my matches. Livid.

The saddest thing of all - clicking on 'unviewed' and no matches coming up at all.

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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #160 on: Friday 04 September 20 17:20 BST (UK) »
Has anyone else not had any new matches since the cull? I was getting about six a day before it happened but nothing since Monday  ::) :'( Also got a snotty reply from Ancestry when I told them how the total number of matches has been halved - got ordered to use the suggestion box instead. Not too friendly, are they?

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Re: Ancestry removing matches less than 8cM
« Reply #161 on: Friday 04 September 20 17:49 BST (UK) »
Snap Fleming!

I haven’t had any new matches since the cull either...

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