Ancestry updated my ThruLines again, but decided to use different tree sources for the incorrect suggestions in it (the names and photos are different but they’re the same people as before). Rachel Flood Logan is new, but she’s set in someone’s tree as the mother of Andrew Logan (who is the father of my 2nd-great-grandfather Henry Logan’s enslaver Tyler Logan), so she’s not a match, either. You can’t reject a suggestion yet, but you can hide suggestions generated from a DNA match’s tree by hiding said match. I can’t find Hannah Trimble from the first screenshot so I can’t be sure how accurate the suggestion was, but I doubt it was at all. Hannah Trimble was probably set as Andrew Logan’s mother in someone’s tree.
ThruLines screenshot from 09/04/22
ThruLines screenshot from 09/11/22
Francis Logan is the father of Andrew Logan, by the way. If a suggestion is marked as “private” that means the tree it was generated from is private if the person was born or died a long time ago.
Ancestry also created a suggested ancestor chain from someone I actually share DNA with to the aunt of Tyler Logan (Rachel). And it’s wrong. The DNA match confused a black Caroline Meriwether with a white one. The white Caroline is the one related to Tyler Logan. ThruLines is only as good as the trees it uses to make suggestions. Also, the odds of me sharing DNA with a 6th cousin is extremely low.
The Harriet Newell in that chain is also wrong, but it’s using the Harriet from a different person’s tree than my DNA match (whose Harriet is correct). The other person confused black Harriet Alexander with white Harriet Newell. (One ancestor chain can be built from multiple trees.)
I don’t doubt that the DNA match and I are related, but I have no idea how at the moment. I can’t even determine which side of my family we’re related on because I can’t identify either of the DNA matches we share.
