I would add that you should be using both CoA AND FI:A - there are many Matches, with segment data, in CoA that are not in FI:A. Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! On Sep 22, 2013, at 1:54 AM, "Tim Janzen" <tjanzen@comcast.net> wrote: > Dear Barbara, > In order to get the most out of 23andMe you have to send sharing requests to > people. I always invite people to share genomes at the basic level. Like > others, I find it really hard to keep up with the correspondence since I am > working full time (and occasionally do other things besides genetic > genealogy when I am not working). I any case, I would urge you to contact > all of your matches at 23andMe if you can. Record the matching segment data > for those who accept sharing with you. Ask your contacts to share a > pedigree chart with you in some form if they don't have one linked to their > account. Make sure you get very familiar with the use of Family > Inheritance: Advanced. The primary advantage of 23andMe now is the fact > that a huge number of people are being tested there, particularly during the > past 9 months or so. The number of people who have tested at 23andMe now is > somewhere in the range of 400,000. Walter Freeman's comments more or less > mirror my thoughts as well. > Sincerely, > Tim Janzen