Ancestry SideView Technology to be Extended

[Galium]

I don't have the new technology either.  However, for the past week or so there has been a tag on 'DNA matches' from the DNA drop down list which says 'updated'. 

It's there whether I have new matches or not, so I don't think it is that, but there doesn't seem to be any other reason for the claim that my DNA matches  have been updated.

Does anyone know what it means?

[ikas]

Please, could anyone tell me how I correct an assignment to unassigned when I think they have wrongly allocated a match.

I don't think there is a way to do that at the moment. As it is a valid option then it really is a bug in the software. I have reported it using their link.

I and others have noticed that in some cases where an assignment has been made the edit relationship button cannot be used to assign to the other side. The other side option is missing. In other cases all three options are available. I thought this was also a bug and reported it but I am beginning to suspect it is intentional. In all my higher level matches that have been assigned the other side option is missing. Moving down to lower level of matches all three options are available.

Can anyone confirm/disprove this theory?

[aghadowey]

Yesterday I spent time going through matches starting with paternal ones. It was quite easy to put most of them into the groups I've created.
Then started maternal side. One 3rd cousin of my father who cannot be related to my mother appeared in her matches but was easily able to shift them to correct side.
However, when looking at some of as yet unknown paternal matches (about 15 or so probably) one name kept coming up as a mutual match on my mother's side. Suspect from brief look he should be a paternal match so will have to investigate further.

[Cell]

Mine has just gone live  here in Aus, just a few hours ago. Yay!

( to the others who still haven't got it yet, they should  send you an email when they have updated yours, I had an email in this morning when mine went live )

They Seem to have my matches  assigned correctly. I haven't scrolled through them all obviously ,but what I can see  they are 100%  definetely correct on all the ones  I have scrolled past, mine's pretty easy to know if they are correct.
What is interesting that I have over 10 thousand more matches on My mother's side than my father's side

The other kit I manage  ( my child's )  hasn't been done  yet  , and yet he did the test months and months before I did  .
Random pot luck I'd say.

Kind regards

[Gadget]

Then started maternal side. One 3rd cousin of my father who cannot be related to my mother appeared in her matches but was easily able to shift them to correct side.
However, when looking at some of as yet unknown paternal matches (about 15 or so probably) one name kept coming up as a mutual match on my mother's side. Suspect from brief look he should be a paternal match so will have to investigate further.

The reason that I raised the question was similar to this.

The match had been allocated to the maternal side but there was no evidence in the tree that this was so. Indeed, the tree showed a geography that was more like my  father's line. The shared matches were  classified as unassigned or paternal. 

Because of this I wanted to place the match into unassigned while I investigated further. This was impossible.

It would be  more scientifically credible if Ancestry produced a chromosome browser, as other sites do, so that their allocations can be properly tested.

Gadget

PS - as I said before, I have made notes on the record and colour coded as 'unknown relationship'

[angelfish58]

My first cousin, maternal side, has been allocated to both sides on my results but correctly shown as maternal side on my sister's. I have been unable to change it.

[kelsmell]

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 left feedback with Ancestry and told them i thought there was a problem with my results. I had a week off from Ancestry when i went back to it on Saturday and found i had sideview removed from my account and from the other DNA accounts i manage!

I don’t mind my account having sideview removed as it quite clearly had problems, but the other accounts were fine and looked correct!

[Lanc81]

I've just noticed this new feature. I have matches that I know for definite are paternal (match with trees and common ancestors) but there now suggesting in red that they are maternal matches even though there common ancestor link is through my father?  It's also swapped round my ethnicity inheritance! This now doesn't make sense as I've got Portuguese and Scottish which can only come from my father my mother's family tree well researched are from the Midlands for 100s of years.

[LizzieL]

When I first got sideview, it labelled them Parent 1 and parent 2, I had to manually identify which parent was mother and which was father, which was easy from my close cousin matches. My ethnicity is pretty similar on both sides anyway, so I couldn't have told which was which from that alone. OH  still has his labelled parent 1 and parent 2 because he hasn't bothered to identify them as maternal and paternal.