Journeys Filter on Ancestry

[ggrocott]

Does anyone know how the new journeys filter on Ancestry is supposed to work and what it is supposed to achieve. I have 3 'journeys' all in England which appear to tell me nothing!


Central Southern England

Greater London to Southern East Midlands

Eastern South East England

All come up with a long list of seemingly unrelated matches.

[LizzieL]

Another total waste of time.
I have two journeys - one is central southern England where three quarters of my ancestors are from, so not telling me anything new
The other is across a large part of the eastern USA. The person it suggests is part of that journey is my MOTHER. Absolute rubbish. My mother was born, lived and died in the southern half of England. The only time she ever set foot outside the British Isles was for a week's holiday in Malta more than 40 years ago. How can Ancestry produce this utter rubbish? And the sad thing is a considerable number of Ancestry users are going to believe this C**p.
Looking at the hints, It has produced a newspaper report of the death of someone in Pennsylvania with the same first and surname as my mother's maiden name (but different middle name). This person died in 1988 when my mother was very much alive. And by 1988 my mother had been married for almost 40 years so would not be using her maiden name.
There is something seriously wrong with Ancestry's algorithms if they think this is remotely connected to my mother.

[decor]

It can be useful for people with ancestors from different regions/countries. I like the fact that I can filter my match list to see people who also have the ancestral journey 'Belgium'.
But for people with overlapping or neighbouring journeys it might not be of much use.

[Gadget]

As far as I can see, they're the same as the 3 communities that they allocated a while ago.

 Add - they seem to just change the names of the categories