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Mine has also been updated; it says two added to Maternal and three to Paternal but no way to tell who they are. Also, since November my maternal has increased by 324 and paternal by 275.
 
I just looked at my matches by parent, and got a pop-up saying:

Some unassigned matches labeled
Some of your previously unassigned matches have been labeled using our SideView technology.

... and a "Show Me" button.

And it does seem to have made a bigger difference then some others have reported:

............. last week ...now
P1............... 6004 .. 6286 but it says "7 added"
P2.............. 10189 10620 but it says "6 added"
both ................. 1 ......... 1
unassigned 5068 ... 4362

That takes the unassigned count below its initial value of 4778. Whether I will notice them in practice I'm no
 
My Mums has now been updated today with 3 Maternal and 1 Paternal added. 1,452 are unassigned which is 10% which I think is quite reasonable. But when considering the number of 'new matches' over the last 3 months, the assigned figure hasn't grown by much?
 
Helen7 said:
My husband's test says 'Updated Jan 2023'
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My own tree also shows updated Jan 2023 with 1 added to Parent 1 and 4 to Parent 2. I see the unassigned is still pending updates, but this holds little interest for me, and the 2 shown as 'Both sides' are likely to be quite obvious (my daughter for one). I have to own to having little interest in Side View other than as an occasional tool to aid an investigation.
 
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Mitch_in_Notts said:
But when considering the number of 'new matches' over the last 3 months, the assigned figure hasn't grown by much
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Looking at the 5 tests I have access to, ALL of the assigned matches are ones that are over three months old, i.e. none of the 'new matches' (<3 months old) have been assigned, unless manually assigned by me.
 
Helen7 said:
I find SideView much less useful than Shared Matches, as those often home in on a particular area of the tree quite nicely.
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Essentially I agree, but SideView (which we still don’t have in our main subscriber account) can be useful when you have shared matches on both sides of your tree, and you don’t know where the connection might be. And it’s also useful if you have a significant cluster of unknown matches where all the shared matches are also unknown.
 
It's arrived!! It wasn't there yesterday but when I checked my DNA matches today, I found the 'By parent' feature had finally made it to our subscriber account. 3 of the tests we manage show updated Jan 2023 while my sister's is showing Dec 2022.
 
Pauline said:
It's arrived!! It wasn't there yesterday but when I checked my DNA matches today, I found the 'By parent' feature had finally made it to our subscriber account. 3 of the tests we manage show updated Jan 2023 while my sister's is showing Dec 2022.
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Congratulations! Took long enough, didn't it?
 
Today, next to the message "Updated Jan 2023", I see a new green flag saying "783 labeled". That's of the same order as the number that were added to the P1 and P2 totals at the recent update: 282+431=713. Since then those totals have move up and down by one or two, which I suspect is nothing to do with SideView (more likely access permissions being changed on a few accounts).

But it's not that close, is it? So I wonder what that number is supposed to mean. I can understand that they have found a lot of users don't realise how many unassigneds they have resolved, since you need to keep a note of the totals to see it. And of course the number added they have been showing is not for the update, just the latest ones processed.
 
Stuart said:
I can understand that they have found a lot of users don't realise how many unassigneds they have resolved, since you need to keep a note of the totals to see it.
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Does it matter? I don't give it a moment's thought, but maybe I should?
 
I think if I hadn't been keeping track of the totals I would be feeling a bit disheartened that so few of my matches had changed from 'unassigned', because it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of matches are outside of the range of shared Cms that seem significant enough to warrant immediate attention. I know that the seemingly significant might in fact be much less interesting than the more distant matches that share an ancestral surname or birthplace, but feelings aren't logical! I expect Ancestry will want their users to feel positive about the initiatives that are being funded from their subscriptions and DNA test purchases?
 
I received emails this afternoon to both of my Ancestry accounts which had the subject line:

We’ve sorted more of your matches by parent

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This may possibly indicate that they've finished this round of updates.
 
peter said:
This may possibly indicate that they've finished this round of updates.
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I had a similar email on my sister's account, but whereas my matches say updated January 2023, hers still say December 2022. I've given up trying to second-guess Ancestry!
 
Pauline said:
I had a similar email on my sister's account, but whereas my matches say updated January 2023, hers still say December 2022. I've given up trying to second-guess Ancestry!
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It may be that the update cycle spanned the month end.
 
Stuart said:
I can understand that they have found a lot of users don't realise how many unassigneds they have resolved, since you need to keep a note of the totals to see it.
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People pay attention to that? I have all my matches color dotted by family, so I guess I don't really think about it. They have plenty of folks in "unassigned" who are easy to spot which side of the family they are from with my color dotting... I guess I figured like most things, it will take Ancestry awhile to sort out an updating system.
 
I have found one today has been given an exclamation mark by Ancestry. They have worked out my match to be maternal. But the cousin is at the end of a branch in my tree on the paternal side. To be flagged as maternal they must have found a closer cousin on my mum's side but I can't work out how. And classification should probably be 'both'
 
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