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Noticed through the split second that my regular non-beta screen popped up that there will be some additions to Ancestry. I did a quick google search for what it will look like and wasn’t able to find much. I found a YouTube from someone who went over what the changes will look like - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWWBW4VKmZI
Basic jist was:
1. Thrulines will move out of beta
2. DNA circles will be gone completely
3. New Evaluate tool on potential matches to confirm those matches
4. DNA matches showing up to 10th cousins.
5. MyTree Tags will move out of beta.
6. Notes within matches will be more streamlined
It sounds like they’re just refining their new things but it should be nice. I already have the evaluate tool and it looks promising.
Noticed through the split second that my regular non-beta screen popped up that there will be some additions to Ancestry. I did a quick google search for what it will look like and wasn’t able to find much. I found a YouTube from someone who went over what the changes will look like - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWWBW4VKmZI
Basic jist was:
1. Thrulines will move out of beta
2. DNA circles will be gone completely
3. New Evaluate tool on potential matches to confirm those matches
4. DNA matches showing up to 10th cousins.
5. MyTree Tags will move out of beta.
6. Notes within matches will be more streamlined
It sounds like they’re just refining their new things but it should be nice. I already have the evaluate tool and it looks promising.
My mom just got two new genetic communities in an update.
Scottish Lowlands, Northern England & Northern Ireland
Scottish Central Lowlands
I believe these are repackages of Scottish regions that already existed.
Noticed through the split second that my regular non-beta screen popped up that there will be some additions to Ancestry. I did a quick google search for what it will look like and wasn’t able to find much. I found a YouTube from someone who went over what the changes will look like - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RWWBW4VKmZI
Basic jist was:
1. Thrulines will move out of beta
2. DNA circles will be gone completely
3. New Evaluate tool on potential matches to confirm those matches
4. DNA matches showing up to 10th cousins.
5. MyTree Tags will move out of beta.
6. Notes within matches will be more streamlined
It sounds like they’re just refining their new things but it should be nice. I already have the evaluate tool and it looks promising.
I went on Thru Lines today and found out how a couple of my DNA matches connected. However, you and your cousins need to have submitted not only your DNA but a tree as well. For most of my matches, the people haven't submitted a tree to ancestry, or it says Private. How will you know? My 1st Cousin recently submitted his DNA and showed up as a match, but I KNOW how we are related. Don't know how these 3rd to 5th Cousins are related unless they have submitted a tree.
This Beta stuff confuses me. Since I can use this now, does this mean after July 1st I won't be able to?
I went on Thru Lines today and found out how a couple of my DNA matches connected. However, you and your cousins need to have submitted not only your DNA but a tree as well. For most of my matches, the people haven't submitted a tree to ancestry, or it says Private. How will you know? My 1st Cousin recently submitted his DNA and showed up as a match, but I KNOW how we are related. Don't know how these 3rd to 5th Cousins are related unless they have submitted a tree.
Well yeah, you would obviously need a tree (besides the DNA) to figure out how distant cousins are related, there's no other way!
I'm trying to think of ways of using DNA only, you would need the DNA from every single relative/distant relative going back decades and centuries in order to do it without a tree and even then, it's probably not possible without a paper trail, since the DNA gets "diluted" with every new generation.
Most people (not all) on Ancestry just do it for the ethnicity percentages and not the genealogy/family tree stuff, it's just not their thing or they're not really into it, plus it's a lot of work and people have many other hobbies they like to pursue.
That's why you need to upload your raw DNA to My Heritage and Family Tree and GEDmatch to maximize your DNA connections and maybe there's a slim chance people on those sites have trees that you can use to figure out how you're truly related.
I went on Thru Lines today and found out how a couple of my DNA matches connected. However, you and your cousins need to have submitted not only your DNA but a tree as well. For most of my matches, the people haven't submitted a tree to ancestry, or it says Private. How will you know? My 1st Cousin recently submitted his DNA and showed up as a match, but I KNOW how we are related. Don't know how these 3rd to 5th Cousins are related unless they have submitted a tree.
This Beta stuff confuses me. Since I can use this now, does this mean after July 1st I won't be able to?
When it gets to the 5-8th cousins most don't have a tree. A lot of 4-6th don't either. It will say we have no DNA or name matches but if they show up we'll see them. So, if there are no matches why do they still put them up there? It doesn't make sense to me.
I went on Thru Lines today and found out how a couple of my DNA matches connected. However, you and your cousins need to have submitted not only your DNA but a tree as well. For most of my matches, the people haven't submitted a tree to ancestry, or it says Private. How will you know? My 1st Cousin recently submitted his DNA and showed up as a match, but I KNOW how we are related. Don't know how these 3rd to 5th Cousins are related unless they have submitted a tree.
ThruLines works even with private trees as long as they are "searchable" and people don't need a big tree to get connections from ThruLines - I have had several matches who only have 3 people in their tree (sometimes private) and ThruLines still finds a connection. And even when they are private, you can still get basic info from ThruLines by clicking on each ancestor - you'll get the same basic data you get from the private tree search results.
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This Beta stuff confuses me. Since I can use this now, does this mean after July 1st I won't be able to?
Do you have a subscription? If so, then you'll still be able to use the stuff in beta right now after July 1st - beta is just a testing mode. If you don't have a subscription, I am not sure what their plan is for access to stuff in beta right now. Maybe the video mentions it but I didn't watch the whole thing.
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