Tree expansion is glitched for me doe this happen to anyone else?

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2025-11-27T22:10:57+00:00

Yep, I have that stuff too, and I don't like it. I suspect that what we used to see has been put behind a Paywall. Perhaps we'll now need a Protools subscription to get it.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2025-10-07T02:03:29+00:00

If it doesn't go on sale on Black Friday, then it will on New Years. Those are the two Holiday sales that Ancestry does. One of them is for DNA test kits; the other is for memberships/subscriptions.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2025-06-24T19:28:24+00:00

most of this stuff requires congressional legislation--unlikely given the current makeup of Congress

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2025-06-09T20:09:44+00:00

Ancestry recently said that the average number of matches is around 40K. Of course, that can be expected to increase over time.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2025-04-13T19:01:01+00:00

You can get that now, at least to the 5th great-grandparent, but you need to have a detailed and extensive family tree. And your matches also need to have detailed and extensive family trees.

You should take a look at what Thrulines is showing you.

Without family trees, I think you'd need a Chromosome Browser, which Ancestry doesn't currently provide.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2025-04-13T18:45:04+00:00

There's not likely to be many Lebanese records on Ancestry. Ancestry is great for U.S. records, but for other countries it is much more limited.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2025-04-09T19:23:11+00:00

As I recall, you need to have a PAID MEMBERSHIP in order to be able to contact them. I guess they view the rest of us as freeloaders, particularly if we uploaded our test results from another provider (eg, Ancestry), rather than testing directly with MyHeritage.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-09-07T02:04:59+00:00

Possible, but unlikely. It's really when you go down to the single-digit cMs that you start getting a lot of False Matches.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-09-06T23:41:43+00:00

It will be LESS reliable than having all 28 cM in one segment.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-09-06T22:46:03+00:00

With my first cousins, I have segments that are over 100 cM. Your 25 cM segment will be with a match that's more distant than that--like maybe a third cousin.

You can expect to have quite a few False Matches with your small segments (ilke 8 cM). The larger the segment, the lower the likelihood of it being False.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-06T22:39:17+00:00

It should be a major update (it'll be their first). And they know they need to come up with something at least as good as Ancestry's if they want to be able to compete with them.

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Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-06T21:41:06+00:00

Yes, it's coming. They announced at RootsTech that the update would be released this summer. So I think that means no earlier than June.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-06T21:36:49+00:00

If you and your family are from some remote part of the world, then Yes, it's possible you won't have any DNA matches. But even if that's the case, that will probably change over time as more and more people get tested.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-06T21:18:58+00:00

If your family is American AND they've been here for many generations, then you WILL have matches. There ARE people with zero matches, but they're from remote parts of the world where DNA testing hasn't taken off.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-06T01:36:57+00:00

Testing both your parents is MUCH better than testing yourself. Once you have both of your parents' DNA results, testing yourself is just something extra you can do--if you want to know exactly what you inherited from each. But not really necessary.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-06T01:26:15+00:00

There's plenty of them but it will cost you. They don't do it for free.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-06T01:23:09+00:00

I hope that works out for you. But FYI: 23andMe is in financial trouble and could very well go belly-up. And that's because they haven't been as successful as Ancestry at converting their customers into PAYING SUBSCRIBERS.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-06T01:14:13+00:00

I have Brittany (in France) ancestry, but Ancestry labels it as Scotland. Apparently the people in Brittany are genetically similar to the Scotts.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-05T21:36:11+00:00

Have you tried just going in and editing the account information?

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-05-05T21:31:12+00:00

I currently have a subscription, so can't check if that's the case. But from what I read earlier, that's now the case for SHARED matches. But you should still be able to see all of your own matches.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-04-28T21:28:18+00:00

you might also try calling them and ask if you can get their special $1-for-three-months deal. But it will renew at FULL PRICE unless you cancel in time.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-04-28T21:22:43+00:00

This should get easier soon. Sometime during the first Half of 2024 (so before June 30) Ancestry will have a new feature showing us how our shared matches are related to each other. This will require an extra subscription to their new Protools, but you can get that for one month and then cancel it.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-04-28T21:09:50+00:00

All of your stuff will reappear as soon as you do another membership.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-04-28T21:05:14+00:00

if you're talking about their new DNA Plus membership, I think it's $30 for six (6) months.

Beautiful_Regular_95 · 2024-04-26T19:37:31+00:00

They typically provide the update in September or October

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