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So I've just logged into the guest account I set up for my sister when she did her DNA test (and never use), and she has this new feature - and the notification bell. As things stand I can only see her results through her account but at least I now know, for her, which parent is which, something I haven't been able to tell just from the ethnicity estimates.

Typically, the two high matches I would most have liked to know about are unassigned - for one of them all the shared matches are on the maternal side, while for the other I have shared matches on both sides. However, I have plenty of others to look through.

 

I'm actually interested to know if the new information will let us know which parent is the one that matches those DNA relatives we have already figured out, because that could go a long way to assisting the removal of brick walls.

I'm thinking particularly of my mother's results, because unlike my paternal side, she doesn't have a parent with a unique DNA ethnicity to make it extremely simple to know which of my grandmother's "Parent"s is her father and which is her mother (one almost pure Scottish, the other English & Jewish). As if, for example, Parent 1 was all my mothers paternal relatives that I had already chatted to/recognised/discovered matched to a few of the "Unknown family groups" I have sitting in those results (due to my illegitimate great-great grandfather) I might be a step closer to discovery on that score.

 

Not that I can see. I have allocated her to 'Fathers side' (now showing Parental with you have selected this label). The 'message' button is available for me to contact her. I suppose I can message her and see if I am assigned to her Maternal side which is where the connection should be.

 

I had that last night with one of the other two tests I manage - 'by parent' kept defaulting to my own results. Was working fine this morning while I was having breakfast, so probably still a few glitches around!

 

I didn't know which of parent 1 and parent 2 was maternal/paternal until last night when all was clearly revealed!

 

Yes, it does. Looking at my sister's matches, those where I've already noted a relationship have a little 'i' in a circle alongside, and clicking that tells you if the match is Parent 1 or Parent 2.

 

I manage 3 DNA tests.
Out of interest in the 'by parent' section:
EM has 12,790 assigned and 1,768 unassigned. Tree has 6,443 people.
DM has 20,555 assigned and 3,894 unassigned. Tree has 6,443 people.
NM (me) has 528(!!!) assigned and 11,689 unassigned. Tree has 494 people.
There is no blood connection between the 3 people.
Has anyone else such a discrepancy in assigned and unassigned especially as some of the unassigned are alive and appear in the tree of 494 people?

 

Looks pretty accurate to me, at least with the matches that I can verify. I have one match on my maternal side that Ancestry tells me is paternal. When I click on the i next to it I am given the option of changing it or keeping it, but if I click on keep nothing happens!

I also now know that the 13% Swedish/Danish that I apparently have has come from my father. I have no idea how far back this Scandinavian ancestry is because as far as I know all my father's ancestors came from the East Midlands or Staffordshire. Could 13% go back 1000 years to when the Danes were raping and pillaging?

 

I was expecting the alert to tell me that they thought it was paternal would disappear.

 

So far, every time I select "by parent" I just get "Something went wrong. Please try again later.".