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Hello, when I choose "The common ancestors found" Filter in my DNA matches, it finds none. However, my mother is a DNA match, with a family tree including herself and her father. My tree also includes her and her father, so the filter should have found the common ancestor. Also, my DNA is linked to my tree, likewise for mom wrt her tree. Is there something else that needs to be configured to enable common ancestor matches?
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Hi Matt,

Does your mother have a different Geneanet account than yours? If so, what are the privacy settings of her tree? Any private person (by default born less than 100 years ago, but varies based on privacy settings) is not taken into account in the tree comparison.

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Hello Eric, I setup her account, specifying public access for the tree, with her being the root person.
My tree is also public access, with myself as the root.
BTW, a few of my cousins uploaded DNA and trees, so they too should be found as common ancestor matches.
I can view their trees, with our common ancestors shown, but none of these are found by the Filter.
I will check with them regarding the tree privacy settings.
Does the DNA file have to be linked to the root person for the common ancestors filter to work?
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I did a quick comparison and it should find a match. If you recently uploaded the GEDOM, try reindexing each site at https://my.geneanet.org/arbre/?option=index&view=options

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It's still not working.
My mom and I have Kenneth William Mason (1909-1966) in our public trees, which is not found by the filter.
Additionally, my cousin Robert John Pribnow has Nicolas Vironet, Jean Philippe Vironet and Otto John Verona in his public tree, which are also in my tree.
Cousin Elizabeth Cagle has Alice Augusta Vironet in her tree, while my tree contains the same Alice Augusta Vironet - a descendant of Nicolas Vironet.
But no common ancestors are found for any of these matches.
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I have clicked "Launch the search" and the common ancestors show up.
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Jean-Yves BAXTER
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Great, it finds my mom now... but what about Robert John Pribnow and Elizabeth Cagle?
In the case of Robert Pribnow, he has Nicolas Vironet's birth year as 1859, with no death date. (should be 1818-1874)
Also, he has our GGF as "John Philippe Vironet", not the correct "Jean Philippe Vironet", but with correct birth & death years.
Our MRCA is Otto John Verona, (1895-1954) which he lists as "Atose (Otto) J Verona (1894-1954)
I assume the misspellings and incorrect birth/death years are causing the filter to fail?
Cousin Elizabeth Cagle's tree stops with Alice Augusta Vironet.
Our MRCA, Nicolas Vironet, is two generations up.
It looks like she needs to add Alice's father and grandfather (Nicolas) for the filter to work?
Ancestry has the ability to extrapolate up the tree, based on a shared match's more complete tree, so it finds our common ancestor using these exact trees. (we uploaded our GEDCOMs from Ancestry)
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Robert John Pribnow and Elizabeth Cagle are not the root person in the family tree of your DNA relatives so we can't search for common ancestors at this moment.

Geneanet DNA has been launched 1 year ago and we regularly add some new options.
Best wishes,

Jean-Yves BAXTER
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Thanks for the information. I will ask them to edit their trees and/or update settings to make this work.
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