Ancestry - don't delete our DNA matches!

I had my DNA tested with Ancestry because it was reliable and WOULD BE THERE FOREVER.

Defeats the purpose of having the largest databases if we cant access the information we need. Either show all our matches or let us download our small matches. The further along with our research we are, the more important those small matches become.

Give us back out Cousins! I pay $399 a year for this and don't appreciate losing this feature because Ancestry is trying to save storage.

Please don't delete the small matches. I have many confirmed cousins found through them, including more than 20 Common Ancestor clues at less than 8cM. This change will hamper and eliminate much of my early research efforts.

Some of the most useful information and extensive trees come from matches with less than 8 centimorgans.

I am a bit late to the game, didn't realize what they were doing until too late to save everything. I have had very good results with these low matches. Ancestry is now going back only 4 generations, that's worthless, you can get that on census and court records. When we signed up for DNA tests, it went to 6cm that is what we paid for. Please bring them back. At least the ones that were already there.

I've found many DNA matches with only 6.5 cM who shared a common ancestor with me. Please don't remove these. Or allow us to select all 20,000 or so records at once and move them to a custom group. Having to write a script to do this is ridiculous.

As far as I am concerned I paid for the 6 and 7 cm matches and should remain on my list. New ones need not be added.

Please don't delete the 6cM thru 8cM DNA as I need them to prove that I am descended from my 3rd grandparents and beyond. Since I am over 75 years old, there are not many historical records for ancestors born before 1800.

Ancestry, please keep the lower matches. I have a lot of shared matches in these categories and am still working with them.In this dreadful Pandemic, I am sure that you are getting more subscribers as people in lock down join up (I know of 3 who have joined because they are at home and have more time on their hands- and one has paid for a DNA test) so money is still coming in. I realise that there are financial implications with paying for a one off DNA test and that there is a lot of storage space and background stuff that require payments. Thank you.

Thank you for this opportunity

My best friend(who was adopted)did an dna test and we are distant cousins. I discovered we are related on my mother’s side and know who One set of her great grandparents are. I’m still working on it. If it wasn’t for the distant cousin matches we would have never known we were kin. Please don’t take it away from your paying customers. Thank you

Please don't delete my 6 - 8 cm matches. I know there are lots of connections to them.

I regard the distant matches as the most useful as each one confirms a long line of ancestors,some of these distant ancestors are only confirmed by matches below 8cm.

I love ancestry.com but do not like being lied to. The lie about science advancements resulting in a 50 percent cut in matches is insulting. The cut off line could move all the way up to 100cM which would improve accuracy but render searches to uselessness. I have 80 matches with ThruLines Common Ancestors in that range (6-cm-8cm) which would otherwise be lost. I will not see new ones or when others fill out their trees for those most important of all matches that break down brick walls. very mad at a company I have loved

We need those small matches. They connect us further back in our ancestry.

Once lost. Gone forever. People have trusted Ancestry since its founding, trusted it to protect their information. We’ve shared a lot with you, built Ancestry actually. Please don’t fail us now. Don’t let us down.

I understand the magnitude, cost but deleting valuable information is not the way. Maybe get rid of people who dont have a tred at all? Those are irritating. Start small. Shoukd be a better way. Why would I continue to pay looking for my older relatives? I think you will lose more than you save.

I am in the process of taking the test and sending back. I have paid. New to it all but I have just read through reports on what you are doing. Many unhappy customers CAROL WOODSD

I realize using small segments gives me many false positives, but the work is worth it. Using the combined results of my siblings and cousins, we have been able to track descendants of our European ancestors over 6 generations back. The small segments point us in the right direction and we work on the paper trail. Ancestry needs to find another DNA option to support its serious family researchers. We need more tools, not toys.