Bob, Phil etc, It seems that a subset of Ancestry's community has been selected to test a new version of their "DNA Matches" pages. I get the same results on my laptop and Kindle Fire (same result, slightly different layout).
Instead of a table of DNA cousins, with groups and notes recorded on the right hand side, each individual match has been given more space, so you get 2-3 cousins per screen instead of ten.
Groups have moved from the right to the left, and on my laptop, if your cousin is in more than one group, the dots overlap. Helpful ?? not.
They now tell you the %age match of your DNA - so the first ten to fifteen of my cousins have a figure, the remaining 17,500 have "<1%". Not helpful
There is now a green "View Match" button, that as well as adding another few lines on the Kindle is immediately below the man/lady/photo icon that still has a hyperlink that opens your cousins details. Pointless ?
Each cousin now comes in their own box, with a margin, instead of a single line separation, and there is another line/margin between the cousin and the group symbol/notes
All these new features make it look pretty but take up space.
With the old screen, if I wanted to send a screenshot of shared matches to another member I could get ten on a screenshot. I now need three or four screenshots.
If I select my DNA cousins with 10cm DNA I will end up with two to three thousand or more - this was doable, if not a bit longwinded, at ten to a screen. at 2-3 it is probably impossible.
Whilst I pick up a fair number of cousins through surname search, those with unlinked trees are not found. They can be significant cousins, the new system will make it far harder to find them.
will we be getting a questionaire ? I have not found an easy way to complain to Ancestry.
john
