What The New 23andMe means for genetic genealogy: http://throughthetreesblog.tumblr.com/post/131724191762/the-23andme-metamorphosis Very Respectfully, Shannon -- Mr. Shannon S. Christmas Chief Market Advisor | Design Strategist The Christmas Collective <http://christmascollective.wix.com/the-christmas-collective> Strategic Real Estate and Land Use Solutions New York, NY | Washington, DC P: 212.433.0586 | 202.618.1687 F: 1.888.788.5984 http://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonchristmas/

I think i read on a blog somewhere that when the change occurs, those who remain as anonymous now will still remain as anonymous but when those anonymous log in after the change they will be met with an option along the lines of something if they wish to continue to remain anonymous or go public with a name, initials, alias etc. If they choose to remain anonymous i think they no longer appear and show in your match list and i also think that those that choose to remain anonymous will lose their match list all together and the only way that they will be able to see their match list is if they were to go public. I also think that once the change has occurred you will not be able to send a message to anyone who is showing as anonymous but the messages that you have already sent to those who are anonymous before the change will still remain for them to reply back to you. I personally think its a good idea that anonymous people after the change who choose to remain anonymous when faced with the option to do so will no longer be able to view or have a match list until they choose the option to go public as that way it is somewhat one sided at the moment with anonymous people being able to have and view a match list which includes those who are public matches in the profile and are able to view segment details of public matches in their countries of ancestries. So if you want to have and view your match list you can only do so if you choose to go public which makes it a 2 way street for everyone and therefor the majority of people that do go public should hopefully be serious about genealogy and most likely to respond.. I think that there is the option that when you go public that you can choose to make your dna segments automatically be revealed and appear in the match list of all those who also choose the option to automatically make their dna segments to be revealed so need to send out a sharing invitation to those people but those people that don't choose the option to make their dna segments to be automatically revealed will still have the option of being able to contact people and send them a sharing invitation? to ask them to share genomes. My very top match who is anonymous who shares 80cm on 3 segments with me has never responded to my 2 messages that i have sent in the last 2 years and this match also appears as anonymous in my countries of ancestries list so i am hopeful that this person must be interested in genealogy if they have completed the where are you from survey to then appear in countries of ancestries. I am so hoping that when they log in again after the change that they choose to go public and receive their match list as only with a match list can it be helpful to someone who is interested in genealogy otherwise they will lose their match list which won't be of any help to them at all if they choose to remain anonymous. Overall i believe that the change is going in the right direction. Those that choose to remain anonymous are most likely have taken the 23andme for the health report and not interested in genealogy so no loss if these people no longer appear in a match list but i guess would be a loss if they were showing as a very close match before the change and you are banging your head against the wall wishing that the person would reply back to your message that you have sent to them. Jamie > > On 23 October 2015 at 11:00 Shannon Christmas via > <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > What The New 23andMe means for genetic genealogy: > > http://throughthetreesblog.tumblr.com/post/131724191762/the-23andme-metamorphosis > > Very Respectfully, > Shannon > -- > Mr. Shannon S. Christmas > Chief Market Advisor | Design Strategist > The Christmas Collective > <http://christmascollective.wix.com/the-christmas-collective> > Strategic Real Estate and Land Use Solutions > New York, NY | Washington, DC > P: 212.433.0586 | 202.618.1687 > F: 1.888.788.5984 > http://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonchristmas/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENEALOGY-DNA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >