Ancestry SideView Technology to be Extended

[ikas]

Morning, Just wondering has anyone got a similar problem as me? They’ve sorted my matches as, paternal 7 matches & maternal 522 matches a bit better but not great and unassigned over 10,000 matches.

LostCousins site has linked an article that explains in more detail how SideView works. It might help explain your situation.
https://thednageek.com/ancestrydnas-sideview-assigns-matches-to-parent-sides/

I am still trying to understand the article. 

[kelsmell]

Hi, Thanks ikas i will take a look, fingers crossed i understand it.

[Biggles50]

Mine was available yesterday.

5400 Paternal

10800 Maternal

3600 Unassigned

I spent 1/2 hour just trolling through each of the sections.

It correctly assigned the matches that are already in my trees and looking through them my own assumptions as to which parents line the match is from was largely followed.

Of the unassigned only one is above 50cM and he matches with others in my Paternal line.  Quite a few of the remaining ones do have shared matches with specific Grandparent lines so they can be pretty easy to assign as a starting point should I wish to research them further.

Each of my Grandparents was from geographically different regions of the UK so this makes assigning lines easier for me.

Impressed by the tech used and it should help in giving users an initial starting line of research.

[dicko99]

Morning, Just wondering has anyone got a similar problem as me? They’ve sorted my matches as, paternal 7 matches & maternal 522 matches a bit better but not great and unassigned over 10,000 matches.

I have spent many hours sorting my matches, building trees, researching, even adding my match's lines to my tree to figure out the connections.

My parents are from different countries Mum’s side northern England/Scotland (east coast) & Spain, Dad’s side, southern Ireland mainly (east coast), Dublin, and Wicklow area’s. I just can’t understand why there are only 7 on my Dad’s side!

I manage 7 tests on Ancestry. Most of them seem to have been sorted pretty well but one has failed spectacularly with only 728 paternal and 54 maternal matches and a massive 13399 unassigned! All the tests are at least a couple of years old so there's no reason for that to be the reason.

R.

[plentyn coll]

They didn't do so well with my matches. Most of them are right but most of them are easy, the wrong ones all have Irish ancestry, so far at least.

[Genie24]

I came on RootsChat to post to query why  I don't have access to this new Side View feature, but most of my cousins have. I was wondering if I needed to do something but was dismayed to read a previous post saying that some people will not be able to access this until February 2023. How can it be so random and why is it taking so long?

[aghadowey]

I have one test on Ancestry.
For 'parent 1' (my father) it lists 4 common surnames- his grandmother's maiden name, his mother's maiden name, Smith & Allen. Well, he does have Smith ancestry far, far back as well as Smiths who married into family over the years but ALLEN? The only 'Allen' I can think of was the first name of great-grandfather's cousin! The next most common surnames are his great-great-grandmother's surname, Andrews, Ellis, Miller, Adams, Anderson. None of those surnames I mentioned fit anywhere into his family.
The Origins bit isn't that far off. On his side I have 23,458 matches.
For 'parent 2' (obviously my mother) only one of the common surnames is a mystery.
On this side I have 18,213 matches but the Origins bit is off to say the least. I should start by saying mother's maternal side is German & her paternal side is 1/2 German and 1/2 English. So roughly 3/4 German & 1/4 English for my mother? No. 4% Germanic Europe, 3% France (part of family lived on German-French border), 37% England & Northwestern Europe, 6% Sweden & Denmark.
Good thing I'm not going to these estimates to trace my family tree!

[ikas]

I was wondering if I needed to do something but was dismayed to read a previous post saying that some people will not be able to access this until February 2023. How can it be so random and why is it taking so long?

The Feb 2023 date is a footnote attached to a news item announcing the new technology. I have no idea how they intend to roll this out or how valid that date is - might be watching their back or last phase of the roll out. They are calling it "Beta". Most software companies beta test using chosen volunteers - usually power users - but clearly that is not the case here. Nobody was asked. I suggest you message Ancestry and ask if you can have access. They can only say no. As you can see from this thread some find it accurate, others less so.

[Genie24]

Thanks for this information. I may take your advice and message Ancestry and see what they say.