We need our low matches for our Ancestors from way back
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Moujan
6 years ago
All my impoymarches are below 8cm.
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Kj
6 years ago
Just plain wrong! At the very least give us more time to group and save all our 6-8cM matches.
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Joni Charlie
6 years ago
Please do not delete matches below 8cM. I chose to do a DNA test through Ancestry to find the rest of my family. I have family from Guyana, African American and Native and this data would help me piece my family together. I originally tested through 23andMe because I want to know my family. From there I found several from Guyana and other regions. I was told by a family member that many from my family line tested through Ancestry. Very upset that this is happening because that data would mean everything to me. I am sure there are many other people that are angry about this too. I pay each month for my tree on Ancestry, paid for my DNA test and only to be let down.
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Linda R Horton
6 years ago
Please do not delete DNA matches below 8cM. They are useful for finding kinships dating back to earlier periods in US history. All my ancestors migrated to the British colonies before the Revolutionary War and smaller segments are my best chance to find cousins in the old country as well as break brick walls.
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Tim Kilby
6 years ago
Ancestry's plan to cut off matching at 8cM will disproportionally affect African American genealogists who have little else to discover ancestry pre-1870, pre-emancipation. Even if some matching below this threshold is false, some matches are genuine and highly valuable in discovering lost ancestors and family lines. Ancestry's legal attack on third-party tools in addition to eliminating access to essential data for African Americans can only be seen as corporate institutional racism.
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Tim Kilby
6 years ago
Ancestry's plan to cut off matching at 8cM will disproportionally affect African American genealogists who have little else to discover ancestry pre-1870, pre-emancipation. Even if some matching below this threshold is false, some matches are genuine and highly valuable in discovering lost ancestors and family lines. Ancestry's legal attack on third-party tools in addition to eliminating access to essential data for African Americans can only be seen as corporate institutional racism.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
I use the 6cM matches frequently. Your population of minority testers who have far fewer matches to begin with will really miss any possible leads, no matter how obscure.
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LeAnn Weller
6 years ago
For individuals working with Native American, African American, or 17th and 18th century ancestors, these small segment matches provide essential clues as well as some misdirection. Without tools like chromosome browsers and match downloading I am still willing to do the work necessary. Do not remove the data I need
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Kimberly Overstreet
6 years ago
Don't Delete Our DNA Matches, No matter how small. We paid a fee to do research and would like to access ALL our research.
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Michael Sweet
6 years ago
When many of your ancestors have been in America since the early 1600s eliminating matches will just make it harder to verify our history and everyone's connections.
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Kim Norgren
6 years ago
Apparently Ancestry does not care about serious genealogists willing to do the work to find distant ancestors -- it's bad enough that they don't provide helpful tools like clustering, but now they're taking away the data too?? Perhaps it's time to switch to a different vendor.
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Sian Selkirk
6 years ago
Please do not delete DNA matches. I have only recently found family and don't want to lose any of them
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Shawn Hepworth
6 years ago
Please do not delete dna matches. Buy more HDDs.
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Virginia Reed
6 years ago
The whole promise of the DNA matching on Ancestry.com was to make it easier for people to do their own research. Why would you take such a tool away from paying customers?
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Paula Dean
6 years ago
Please don't remove mine or my family's matches I control. Thanks
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Graham Mac Donald
6 years ago
DNA is a tool that has the power to look at who we are in a positive way...
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Karon M Bosze
6 years ago
Hey Ancestry -- how 'bout dropping the matches who haven't logged in over 6 months, don't have a subscription, and don't have a family tree. And while you're at, it you don't change your minds about the announced change, then give us an option after it's been done for us to mark those matches that really can be deleted (call it ongoing maintenance to save the Server Farm).
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Tom Arens
6 years ago
Please reconsider your decision.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Please do not delete any DNA matches from the database that are crucial to research just to save data based storage... this is a trend that will continue. Please find another solution that will assure capacity in perpetuity... thank you.
We need our low matches for our Ancestors from way back
All my impoymarches are below 8cm.
Just plain wrong! At the very least give us more time to group and save all our 6-8cM matches.
Please do not delete matches below 8cM. I chose to do a DNA test through Ancestry to find the rest of my family. I have family from Guyana, African American and Native and this data would help me piece my family together. I originally tested through 23andMe because I want to know my family. From there I found several from Guyana and other regions. I was told by a family member that many from my family line tested through Ancestry. Very upset that this is happening because that data would mean everything to me. I am sure there are many other people that are angry about this too. I pay each month for my tree on Ancestry, paid for my DNA test and only to be let down.
Please do not delete DNA matches below 8cM. They are useful for finding kinships dating back to earlier periods in US history. All my ancestors migrated to the British colonies before the Revolutionary War and smaller segments are my best chance to find cousins in the old country as well as break brick walls.
Ancestry's plan to cut off matching at 8cM will disproportionally affect African American genealogists who have little else to discover ancestry pre-1870, pre-emancipation. Even if some matching below this threshold is false, some matches are genuine and highly valuable in discovering lost ancestors and family lines. Ancestry's legal attack on third-party tools in addition to eliminating access to essential data for African Americans can only be seen as corporate institutional racism.
Ancestry's plan to cut off matching at 8cM will disproportionally affect African American genealogists who have little else to discover ancestry pre-1870, pre-emancipation. Even if some matching below this threshold is false, some matches are genuine and highly valuable in discovering lost ancestors and family lines. Ancestry's legal attack on third-party tools in addition to eliminating access to essential data for African Americans can only be seen as corporate institutional racism.
I use the 6cM matches frequently. Your population of minority testers who have far fewer matches to begin with will really miss any possible leads, no matter how obscure.
For individuals working with Native American, African American, or 17th and 18th century ancestors, these small segment matches provide essential clues as well as some misdirection. Without tools like chromosome browsers and match downloading I am still willing to do the work necessary. Do not remove the data I need
Don't Delete Our DNA Matches, No matter how small. We paid a fee to do research and would like to access ALL our research.
When many of your ancestors have been in America since the early 1600s eliminating matches will just make it harder to verify our history and everyone's connections.
Apparently Ancestry does not care about serious genealogists willing to do the work to find distant ancestors -- it's bad enough that they don't provide helpful tools like clustering, but now they're taking away the data too?? Perhaps it's time to switch to a different vendor.
Please do not delete DNA matches. I have only recently found family and don't want to lose any of them
Please do not delete dna matches. Buy more HDDs.
The whole promise of the DNA matching on Ancestry.com was to make it easier for people to do their own research. Why would you take such a tool away from paying customers?
Please don't remove mine or my family's matches I control. Thanks
DNA is a tool that has the power to look at who we are in a positive way...
Hey Ancestry -- how 'bout dropping the matches who haven't logged in over 6 months, don't have a subscription, and don't have a family tree. And while you're at, it you don't change your minds about the announced change, then give us an option after it's been done for us to mark those matches that really can be deleted (call it ongoing maintenance to save the Server Farm).
Please reconsider your decision.
Please do not delete any DNA matches from the database that are crucial to research just to save data based storage... this is a trend that will continue. Please find another solution that will assure capacity in perpetuity... thank you.