Quote Originally Posted by Ninja View Post
Wow, a bit further back than I would have expected to be honest.
Is this dependent on how many family members further afield have actually had DNA profiles done at some point?
It is obviously down to who has sent in samples. I know for example that my uncles grandson has sent a sample because I recognised his name from the matches. Also, knowing the calibre of my true grt grandfather's family (council house workers and tenants) I was very doubtful that any one would have bothered sending their DNA. How wrong I was!

It's down to the pool of samples Ancestry have - which is getting bigger all the time. And when new samples match, they ping you - so it's on-going. Check out what I said earlier about using the Ancestry sample on other databases.