Personally, I'm adopting a wait-and-see approach. My understanding is that the changes will take time to become effective, with the website updates rolling out over the coming months. There are both positive and negative aspects to the changes, and until now, we have only experienced the negative changes (with the removal of COA, etc. around Nov. 11th). >From my perspective, the 23andMe management and R&D team have historically been a great aid and catalyst for the field. In particular, 23andMe has been pioneering with their approach to relative finding with these autosomal results, with an approach that was eventually adopted by other companies. They also will be continuing to offer triangulation capabilities not available at any other vendor and the forthcoming group messaging system should be a great boon to those capabilities. But I'm also glad that many in the community, including yourself and the ancestry / genetic genealogy ambassadors like Shannon, are making their views known and providing feedback to the 23andMe management. Greg On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 4:40 AM, McKee via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear List, > > The apparent debacle of the new experience at 23andme has created an early > movement of 23andme members removing permission to use their test results > for 23andme's medical research plans. > > What thoughts from this List as to any meaning this removal of permission > might have to 23andme management? > > Will this help the membership in general to regain the usefulness of the > genetic genealogy side of 23andme? > > > This genealogy-dna list membership has been very quiet about the entire > 23andme situation and I am wondering why collectively this list is not > interested in the plight of those members at 23andme who are apparently > powerless and are not represented by any strong voices in the usual > community leadership. The forums and message boards in general seem to > be giving little commentary to what 23andme is doing to the genetic > genealogy side of their membership. > > It is a surprise to me to witness this lack of interest and leadership by > this forum. > > Of course, the genetic genealogy trail is ground breaking so perhaps this > just another crevasse of big business using customers in whatever willy > nilly manner desired to achieve their avarice but I would be very > interested to see some commentary as to what is going on at 23andme. > > Linda McKee > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Ditto.I'm holding off until after the first of the year at least...and I too manage MANY accounts at 23 and have only done health info on a couple - sat down with family who answered questions for that part. 99% I have skipped the health info and opted out. On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 9:24 AM, G. Magoon via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Personally, I'm adopting a wait-and-see approach. My understanding is that > the changes will take time to become effective, with the website updates > rolling out over the coming months. There are both positive and negative > aspects to the changes, and until now, we have only experienced the > negative changes (with the removal of COA, etc. around Nov. 11th). > >From my perspective, the 23andMe management and R&D team have historically > been a great aid and catalyst for the field. In particular, 23andMe has > been pioneering with their approach to relative finding with these > autosomal results, with an approach that was eventually adopted by other > companies. They also will be continuing to offer triangulation capabilities > not available at any other vendor and the forthcoming group messaging > system should be a great boon to those capabilities. > But I'm also glad that many in the community, including yourself and the > ancestry / genetic genealogy ambassadors like Shannon, are making their > views known and providing feedback to the 23andMe management. > > Greg > > On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 4:40 AM, McKee via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > > > Dear List, > > > > The apparent debacle of the new experience at 23andme has created an > early > > movement of 23andme members removing permission to use their test results > > for 23andme's medical research plans. > > > > What thoughts from this List as to any meaning this removal of permission > > might have to 23andme management? > > > > Will this help the membership in general to regain the usefulness of the > > genetic genealogy side of 23andme? > > > > > > This genealogy-dna list membership has been very quiet about the entire > > 23andme situation and I am wondering why collectively this list is not > > interested in the plight of those members at 23andme who are apparently > > powerless and are not represented by any strong voices in the usual > > community leadership. The forums and message boards in general seem > to > > be giving little commentary to what 23andme is doing to the genetic > > genealogy side of their membership. > > > > It is a surprise to me to witness this lack of interest and leadership by > > this forum. > > > > Of course, the genetic genealogy trail is ground breaking so perhaps this > > just another crevasse of big business using customers in whatever willy > > nilly manner desired to achieve their avarice but I would be very > > interested to see some commentary as to what is going on at 23andme. > > > > Linda McKee > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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