{"id":10003,"date":"2020-07-17T20:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T20:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:29:06","slug":"ancestrydna-removing-matches-less-than-8-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=10003","title":{"rendered":"AncestryDNA Removing Matches Less than 8 cM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dna-cut-tree.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dna-cut-tree.jpg 344w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/dna-cut-tree-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a bit of off-the-cuff opinion that I posted in response to AncestryDNA&#8217;s decision to removed DNA matches from a user&#8217;s shared match list where the shared DNA is less than 8 cM. <a href=\"https:\/\/dna-explained.com\/2020\/07\/16\/ancestry-to-remove-dna-matches-soon-preservation-strategies-with-detailed-instructions\/\">You can find more about the decision and how to preserve the shared matches at the low level here<\/a>. I&#8217;m not saving mine for reasons outlined below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are apparently in a tizzy that AncestryDNA is going to remove matches from your results that have less than 8 cM of shared DNA. A few quick comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) AncestryDNA will do what they want to do. Cry all the tears you want, gnash whatever teeth you have left, hollar all y&#8217;all want, etc. All you will get are dry eyes, nubs to eat with, and a sore throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) I&#8217;ve never used my matches less than 8 cM. That&#8217;s because they are distant matches (if they are even TRUE matches) and determining the relationship is difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) I have so many double\/triple\/quadruple cousins on my maternal side that analysis at a small shared cM level is just about impossible. That&#8217;s on top of the endogamy issue I have there (and it is a separate issue). My paternal side has a fair number of double matches as well. Sorting out the small matches is not always worth the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) Life is short. There are original records on my 3rd, 4th, and 5th greats that sit unaccessed and unanalyzed. I&#8217;d rather spend my time transcribing 17th century records, etc. and learning something about their life than parsing out the teeny amounts of DNA&#8211;but that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5) Don&#8217;t like their decision? Cancel your subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a bit of off-the-cuff opinion that I posted in response to AncestryDNA&#8217;s decision to removed DNA matches from a user&#8217;s shared match list where the shared DNA is less than 8 cM. You can find more about the decision and how to preserve the shared matches at the low level here. I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11066,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions\/11066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}