Ancestry - don't delete our DNA matches!

I recently connected with a distant cousin and this would not have been possible without the DNA match. We had some collaborating family information, but the DNA was the key. Please don't purge this data!

I'm a long term Ancestry user.

This is another example of Black Lives (don't really) Matter. Shame on you.

I will be downgrading my subscription if the 6 and 7cM matches are removed. I have been a loyal customer and feel betrayed.

Instead of deleting our small matches, cull out the people who tested only for ethnicity and who have no interest in genealogy, no interest in trees, no interest in responding.

I have paid for these small matches, and I use them in my research. You wanted 18 million testers in your database; now support them!

The Timber program ensures that more IBS segments are already removed from our match list so these matches may be higher at other companies. Surely we could be provided with a tool to help preserve these matches easily rather than the resource intensive way currently suggested. If the matches are intended to be removed could they be preserved in some 'off site' way that could be accessed afterwards as a csv file - even if we have to pay for it?

I often find matches elsewhere who are listed on Ancestry at the 6-7cM range, but actually share more than that with me. Also helps me to go back as far as I can and when you see a very uncommon name or place, it makes that match even more likely

Deleting matches with these small segments perpetuates the harm done to enslaved Africans and African-Americans, as well as to Native Americans. These small segments are sometimes the only path back to some of our ancestors. Finding that path can help tell their silenced stories.

Do NOT do this! This decision must be reversed. You took our money. Don't change the product/results for which we've already paid!

Please do not purge these matches, just build the tools to help us use the matches better.

Please don't eliminate small cM matches and pleasse do continue to list them from new DNA tests

Please do not delete ANY DNA matches! Ancestry is an expensive service that continues to be less value. Don't take away anything else.

As a long time user of Ancestry at a high membership level, and the manager of multiple DNA submissions, I implore you not to reduce the service level. We rely on those under 8 cM matches to complete research on distant generations.

Please leave leave the 6-8 cm matches alone! Spend your time increasing the response time.

Please do not delete DNA matches less than 8 cM!

Please don't delete small matches. I need them to help me solve my Irish connections.

I have two DNA profiles that I manage that had many cousin marriages. The small cM match is crucial to breaking down what family belongs where. Please consider not deleting these matches!

The matches they are planning to delete are the very ones that I need to break through my brick walls in the Colonial period.

I have just made a major breakthrough in my research using 6 cM and 7 cM matches. This is the most useful area for my brick wall ancestry research.