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Doing as you suggest will retain them. There are more as suggested by The Genetic Genealogist Blaine Bettinger’s. I will paste it here. Go to his website to read his in-depth discussion about Ancestry dropping these small segment matches: Summary is: He thinks it is a good thing even considering those of us with deep roots into slavery. I am one btw. “ The road ahead
Regardless of the known issues with matches in the range of 6-7.9 cM, I know that people want to and will continue to use the genealogical data that is currently among some of these matches (such as Common Ancestor hints). You can retain matches in this range by doing one of three four actions:
Add a note in the match note field;
Add them to a custom group using the colored dot system;
Message them; or
Add a star [this was added by Ancestry on July 18th].
We don’t have an exact date for the match update, only that it will happen in early August.“