Why Do My Shaky Leaves in Family Tree Not Show Up

Exercise you lot always have 1 of those days where you say, "If i more thing goes incorrect…."?

Well, I was and I did and it did.

1 of the things I do daily as a reward and a fun thing is to sign in to Beginnings to check my DNA matches – in particular shakey leaf matches because it means nosotros besides share a common, identified, ancestor.

I go on a spreadsheet of my shakey leaf matches.  I know exactly how many I have, and if my "shared ancestor hint" match number has changed, I and so become and look for my new lucifer.

I bank check to see the identity of our common ancestor, and and so I put them on my spreadsheet, tracking them, the common antecedent and if we have other common ancestors or surnames.

Sometimes my number goes down past one or and so which always makes me go "hmmmm."  Sometimes my number increases by 1 or two only there are no "bluish dots" for new matches.  I only chalked it upward to, well, Ancestry being Beginnings.

Today, I signed in and my match number had increased, but no new blue dot match.  I noticed a relatively close friction match that I didn't recognize, then I checked my spreadsheet to encounter if they were there – and they weren't.

Then, I checked the next 10 or 20 and estimate what – more were missing.

My day went from bad to worse.

I had 175 prior shakey leaf matches, 176 with my newest one today.

I went back and checked all of my shakey leaf matches.

At that place were xxx "new" matches that have never shown up with a new "blueish" button – so I have never put them on my spreadsheet.  And no, in example you're wondering, no i but me has admission to my business relationship.

Still, there were 44 previous matches that are missing entirely .  Where the devil did they go?  That'south 25%.  Poof.  Gone.  Just gone.  And these are people I Deoxyribonucleic acid lucifer with AND share a mutual ancestor.  What'southward going on????

These weren't all distant matches either.  6 were 3^rd or 4^th cousins, some of which I know are legitimate because nosotros have also tested at Family Tree DNA and/or are at GedMatch and triangulate.

Altogether, that's a total 74 "changes" that happened.  So, the truth is, I actually had a total (later on Ancestry's phasing purge) of 220 shakey leaf matches simply since the 44 disappeared gradually as the 30 arrived, the shift was very subtle and went unnoticed.

If we tin can't depend on Ancestry's match numbers nor the "new match" blue dot indication, so we're going to have to go through and reconcile our shakey matches one by one, by hand, from fourth dimension to time.  Y'all can't download this information.  This wasn't fun.  It shouldn't be necessary.  Information technology's ridiculous that nosotros have to do this.

I detest to say this, but trying to deal with substandard software in the form of bad NADs,  unannounced matches and disappearing matches in combination with no chromosome browser to verify anything is making this more than and more like work and less and less similar fun.  Still, we don't need a chromosome browser because we are supposed to trust Ancestry.  Yea, right….when pigs fly.

I'm condign increasingly disillusioned and frustrated.  This is not some cute parlor game – for Heaven'southward sake – this is my ancestors, my flesh and blood, my Dna.  This is sacred to me.  This matching shell game is not amusing in the least.

I don't know whether to crush my head against the wall, cry, throw in the towel with Ancestry or just keep plugging with the hope that peradventure, someday, Ancestry will get their human activity together.  How many years does it accept???  Given that every iteration and then far has been supposed to be "right," how volition we always know when things really are accurate – specially without any tools to verify?  Maybe this is why we don't have those tools?

Twenty 5 pct lost matches of people with both DNA and tree matches and we're supposed to have any modicum of confidence?  This isn't exactly a pocket-size adjustment.  And it's not like this is the first trouble we've seen with Ancestry's Dna product, or an anomaly.  At that place has been issue after issue.

And then, if you lot're not tracking your Ancestry shakey leaf matches independently, you lot need to start.  If you are already tracking them, bank check to come across if you take unannounced new matches and matches that have disappeared.  Yous probably have a few surprises waiting.

Every bit for me, I'm taking two aspirin and going to bed.  It's so tardily it's early and tomorrow just HAS to exist a better solar day!

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Source: https://dna-explained.com/2015/09/24/ancestry-shakey-leaf-disappearing-matches-now-you-see-them-now-you-dont/

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