From: keith_nuttle@yahoo.com   
      
   On 12/08/2023 12:25 PM, john wrote:   
   > I wouldn't be surprised if they get more signing up for a DNA test and   
   > to find out their "ethnicity" than to do serious genealogy research. For   
   > several years now, I've got a large number of DNA hits where there is no   
   > or only a minimal tree so impossible in most cases to work out a   
   > connection, possibly due to past Christmas gift promotions?I truly believe   
   that is the case, otherwise when you try to contact a   
   DNA match, you would get more that about 7% response rate to your request.   
      
   Ancestry know that and have done nothing to make it easy for a person   
   seriously working on their ancestry,  otherwise they would have a system   
   to better filter the DNA matches.   
      
   All of my current research is in greater that the 5th generation.  If   
   they were serious about help the researcher they would provide filters   
   that could screen out those matches where there is not enough   
   information in their online tree. I am not going to research a match   
   that is a 5th to 8th cousin and their tree contains ten people   
      
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