Matches will be marked as Sharing, Pending, Open Sharing, Not Sharing. https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170718-Sorting-and-fil tering-your-matches-in-the-new-DNA-Relatives Barbara -----Original Message----- From: genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Karla Huebner via Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:06 AM To: B Griffiths <ibgriffiths@gmail.com> Cc: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DNA] 23andme down? Thanks, Barbara, that was very helpful. So in other words there will still be two levels of DNA relatives and invitations will still need to be sent to quite a few people.... let's hope that at least we no longer have to click on every Public profile to see whether that person has already been invited. It has been my procedure to invite all DNA relatives, but I miss a lot of Public profiles because I have to open them to see if I've already invited them, and it's not as though they appear in alphabetical order or anything like that. At times like this I have the feeling that 23andMe not only does not care that we need to spend hundreds of hours--on a continual basis--in order to make effective use of their site, but that the company takes pleasure in ensuring that every DNA genealogist must devote insane amounts of time to tasks that could simply be automated or unnecessary. (Same, of course, for Ancestry with its impractical interface and refusal to provide a chromosome browser.) I work full time and have other interests besides genealogy, so I am a bit fed up with the way companies needlessly waste our time, and can see why many people test and then give up trying to figure out their results. Karla

Same here Karla, I also found it frustrating and easy to miss public marked folks as it didn't earmark them on the list as invite sent, etc. I'm just hoping this new site is better and makes things easier - if so it will make things a lot better. I did ask if our old messages would still be there and was told yes. I also aked if the messages would now have a search feature to make them more easily useable--no reply to that one. :( I am crossing my fingers as early on I didn't have enough knowledge to know I needed to keep URL links to those messages so I could find them again, so the posts from the first year are tough as I have well over 5000 messages in the system! :( Lisa On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Barbara Shroyer via < genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Matches will be marked as Sharing, Pending, Open Sharing, Not Sharing. > > https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170718-Sorting-and-fil > tering-your-matches-in-the-new-DNA-Relatives > > Barbara > > -----Original Message----- > From: genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Karla Huebner via > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:06 AM > To: B Griffiths <ibgriffiths@gmail.com> > Cc: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [DNA] 23andme down? > > Thanks, Barbara, that was very helpful. So in other words there will still > be two levels of DNA relatives and invitations will still need to be sent > to > quite a few people.... let's hope that at least we no longer have to click > on every Public profile to see whether that person has already been > invited. > It has been my procedure to invite all DNA relatives, but I miss a lot of > Public profiles because I have to open them to see if I've already invited > them, and it's not as though they appear in alphabetical order or anything > like that. > > At times like this I have the feeling that 23andMe not only does not care > that we need to spend hundreds of hours--on a continual basis--in order to > make effective use of their site, but that the company takes pleasure in > ensuring that every DNA genealogist must devote insane amounts of time to > tasks that could simply be automated or unnecessary. (Same, of course, for > Ancestry with its impractical interface and refusal to provide a chromosome > browser.) > > I work full time and have other interests besides genealogy, so I am a bit > fed up with the way companies needlessly waste our time, and can see why > many people test and then give up trying to figure out their results. > > Karla > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > -- Lisa R Franklin RN,BSN Admin, Franklin Y DNA Project http://trackingyourroots.com/FranklinGenetics/ FranklinGenetics@gmail.com http://trackingyourroots.com/DNA (How To presentation (23andme), tips, & helps. *2**3**&**m**e**: **The World's Largest database & coincidentally the ONLY one with all the tools you need for genealogy and DNA!--* http://refer.23andme.com/v2/share/6158544791499756901/4672616e6b6c696e47656e657469637340676d61696c2e636f6d BEST GENETIC GENEALOGY BOOK! http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Genealogy-Emily-D-Aulicino-ebook/dp/B00HJJWBU2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391174801&sr=8-1&keywords=Genetic+Genealogy

I sure hope 23andMe makes the messages searchable and sortable. I am not so brilliantly organized that I can instantly put my finger on which matches I need to tell what. At least Ancestry's messages can be sorted into various user-defined folders, so that I can separate out different ancestral lines. On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Franklin Genetics < franklingenetics@gmail.com> wrote: > Same here Karla, I also found it frustrating and easy to miss public > marked folks as it didn't earmark them on the list as invite sent, etc. > I'm just hoping this new site is better and makes things easier - if so it > will make things a lot better. I did ask if our old messages would still > be there and was told yes. I also aked if the messages would now have a > search feature to make them more easily useable--no reply to that one. :( > I am crossing my fingers as early on I didn't have enough knowledge to know > I needed to keep URL links to those messages so I could find them again, so > the posts from the first year are tough as I have well over 5000 messages > in the system! :( > Lisa > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Barbara Shroyer via < > genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Matches will be marked as Sharing, Pending, Open Sharing, Not Sharing. >> >> https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170718-Sorting-and-fil >> tering-your-matches-in-the-new-DNA-Relatives >> <https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170718-Sorting-and-filtering-your-matches-in-the-new-DNA-Relatives> >> >> Barbara >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com >> [mailto:genealogy-dna-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Karla Huebner >> via >> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2015 8:06 AM >> To: B Griffiths <ibgriffiths@gmail.com> >> Cc: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [DNA] 23andme down? >> >> Thanks, Barbara, that was very helpful. So in other words there will still >> be two levels of DNA relatives and invitations will still need to be sent >> to >> quite a few people.... let's hope that at least we no longer have to click >> on every Public profile to see whether that person has already been >> invited. >> It has been my procedure to invite all DNA relatives, but I miss a lot of >> Public profiles because I have to open them to see if I've already invited >> them, and it's not as though they appear in alphabetical order or anything >> like that. >> >> At times like this I have the feeling that 23andMe not only does not care >> that we need to spend hundreds of hours--on a continual basis--in order to >> make effective use of their site, but that the company takes pleasure in >> ensuring that every DNA genealogist must devote insane amounts of time to >> tasks that could simply be automated or unnecessary. (Same, of course, for >> Ancestry with its impractical interface and refusal to provide a >> chromosome >> browser.) >> >> I work full time and have other interests besides genealogy, so I am a bit >> fed up with the way companies needlessly waste our time, and can see why >> many people test and then give up trying to figure out their results. >> >> Karla >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > > -- > Lisa R Franklin RN,BSN > Admin, Franklin Y DNA Project > http://trackingyourroots.com/FranklinGenetics/ > FranklinGenetics@gmail.com > http://trackingyourroots.com/DNA (How To presentation (23andme), tips, & > helps. > > *2**3**&**m**e**: **The World's Largest database & coincidentally the > ONLY one with all the tools you need for genealogy and DNA!--* > > http://refer.23andme.com/v2/share/6158544791499756901/4672616e6b6c696e47656e657469637340676d61696c2e636f6d > > BEST GENETIC GENEALOGY BOOK! > > http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Genealogy-Emily-D-Aulicino-ebook/dp/B00HJJWBU2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391174801&sr=8-1&keywords=Genetic+Genealogy > > > > -- Karla Huebner calypsospots AT gmail.com