Ancestry SideView Technology to be Extended

[Lanc81]

I've contacted ancestry to explain how they've allocated some matches to the wrong parent. Some of my matches have more than one common ancestor link to my paternal side and they've still been allocated maternal.
 Ancestry have said they can't tell with some matches so they just assign one or the other or leave it unassigned. So if people are seeing matches with paternal or maternal highlighted in red telling you it's the wrong parent just beware. There's still loads of quessing going on at ancestry

[Galium]

Got my SideView yesterday.  I can tell that it still needs to make a few adjustments.  It doesn't want to allocate my mother's test result (labelled 'mother' by Ancestry in my list of matches) to my maternal side.

[Cell]

My child's has just been updated too now.
They seem to have most of his matches correct.

I wonder if the ones  that they are struggling with is because the two parents have very similar ethnicities and it's hard to tell them apart .mine ( and my son's)
 are easy to tell who are parent 1 and parent 2, so perhaps that's why our assigned matches are.correct so far.

The only one that they may have got incorrect on my son is  marked "both sides" by them,and the match has a tree , which most of their relatives seem.to be  from Pontypridd mostly (my husband has no known relatives from pontypridd - but I do)..
The shared matches that this match and my.son shares ( only 1 shared match between them - and I am not a shared match).
 - hard to say as I do share a few.( low cms.to me) matches with my son that  are 100% my husband's family( which I shouldn't do, for.example my husband's  first cousin.daugher that I share  a low .match with ) on My Heritage, and those same.people are  not on Ancestry. They tested.with my heritage only.
Kind Regards

Ps  I've  just looked again - and yes they have a few incorrect on my son on the ones they have assigned to "Paternal side"  ( his maternal assigned ones are 100%  correct.so far)I am scrolling through a few of his paternal ones now, and one of his matches I recognise to be on my side.(my son's maternal side .)
- but rhe match is 100% on my side as I share dna with him and.share matches with the shared matches too )  . son is 29cm to him, I am 23cm to the match .

This if anything , ( even  if they somwhow think the match is on my son's paternal side ) should have been marked " both sides" by ancestry and not Paternal.

Perhaps this match is really on both sides and he is also on my son's paternal side,, BUT they should have not marked this as "Paternal" like they have done so,  as I clearly share DNA with this match too ( my husband hasn't tested ) - they should have either marked it  Maternal or Both sides and not Paternal side.
Argh !! so scrap what I said about my son's being correct. Lol

Only mine seem to be 100% correct  - I really can't  fault them with mine , I can only fault them on some of my son's  paternal matches(  I've  only just begun to look through my son's )
Ps excuse the typos ,I am typing on.my phone keyboard

[Mowsehowse]

Go to your list of DNA matches and the top you can now select by parent, all matches or by location

Reply #8  Thank you... but on mine it ONLY says "all matches" & "by location"

Does one need the massively expensive premium membership to get the feature?

[Cell]

Actually ,my own  aren't 100% correct ( I previously stated in my last post that mine are 100% correct )   as I've  just found one that I know for 100%  sure that is incorrect in my matches too-  My third cousin is incorrectly assigned .

I can also see a few  more in my son's   that are assigned incorrectly the more I look through his( I've been going through his most of the day, as they've only just released his) , but  I thought they had all of mine 100% correct,  how  wrong was I ? Lol

Mine are so very easy for them to assign correctly with most of the close matches, as I have very close family members that have tested ,and I  also have the added benefit  of  my parents are from two different countries ( my son's should  be even easier than mine  considering  I have tested lol) 

How I missed this one incorrectly labelled in my matches  - I never know!. They have labelled my known third cousin on my Maternal side as Paternal - in red writing ( I assigned her correctly ages ago as Maternal  -.I don't  appreciate the red writing by ancestry lol). They  have her correct on my son's,  being his maternal side(me), but they are definetely not correct with me and her,  which of my two  parent's  side she is on.

She  is from my maternal side for 100%, sure! Her great grandfather  is my great grandfather's  brother  on my mother's side.
Kind regards

[Cell]

Go to your list of DNA matches and the top you can now select by parent, all matches or by location

Reply #8  Thank you... but on mine it ONLY says "all matches" & "by location"

Does one need the massively expensive premium membership to get the feature?

Hi,
You will eventually get the new feature which you can select by parent, maternal and paternal ( or parent 1 and 2)  to your matches, or both ,   regardless if  you have a free account with them or a sub.

Some people have had it for weeks on end, whilst others  still haven't got it yet. I've only  have had  the feature since the 24th Oct, my  son  only has got  the feature  today.

Apparently they hope to have rolled it out to everyone by Feb next year. There seems no rhyme or reason to me why some get it before others . It seems like pure pot luck.
Kind regards

[phil57]

There seems no rhyme or reason to me why some get it before others . It seems like pure pot luck.
Kind regards

It is still in beta testing, so will be being rolled out in batches. Issues should be expected, and should be reported, as it will help Ancestry to increase precision. Although as a software algorithm that has to make some assumptions, it may never be 100% accurate.

[Mowsehowse]

Thank you Cell + Phil.  Fingers crossed.

[Cell]

There seems no rhyme or reason to me why some get it before others . It seems like pure pot luck.
Kind regards

Issues should be expected, and should be reported, as it will help Ancestry to increase precision. Although as a software algorithm that has to make some assumptions, it may never be 100% accurate.

Regarding accuracy, you would think when   a parent and their child tests ,  and both that parent  and child  match to the same person ( and on top of that all shared matches between that match   are also  from the same parent's side )- the computer programmes would  assign that to the correct parent and not make really odd assumptions and mark it  to the other  parent that hasn't even tested. 

 Even if it  thinks  it is the other parent side for some obscure,  odd weird reason,   they  should mark it as" Both sides " and  not as the other parent who hasn't  tested at all. 
They are way off with a couple  of my son's, when they need not  be.
They have a couple of my son's that  are marked  as his paternal side  with this  new feature - when they are most certainly,  genetically  my side ( his maternal side)

Kind regards