I have two second/third cousins. One has shared DNA connections of 263 cM across 14 segments. The other has shared DNA connections of 235 cM across 9 segments.
After that is drops down to a third/fourth cousin who has shared DNA connections of 179 cM across 11 segments.
The rest are third/fourth with diminishing connection and segments. I tried loading the list but only got down to sixth/eighth cousins. They seemed to be going on forever. My laptop is old, so it takes the page forever to load them all. I just stopped it at 17 cM across 1/2 segments. I don't know how far down the connection line Ancestry.com goes when listing your matches...but that's far enough for me.
Because my parents were born in other countries, I had no option but to go for the full subscription from Ancestry.com so I'd have access to the records in the various countries that the family line takes in. I wrote for an estimate to hire one of their genealogists to search in lines that ended early on, but they told me their prices start and $5,000 and go up from there. Thanks, but no thanks.
Have you tried Geni? If you Google Geni surnames and type in a surname you may find entries for ancestors or other relatives.
I have never signed up for Ancestry.com because many of the records are available for free with FamilySearch.org. That includes many records from other countries. That is a Mormon site but anyone can use it. You have to register to use it but registration is free. The local public library has Ancestry.com so I have used it a few times there.