Christine has just posted today in the new forums that our issues will be addre https://www.23andmeforums.com/discussion/112/addressing-feedback-about-the-new-site#latest ssed Here is my summary of the new site. I was disappointed too http://blog.kittycooper.com/2015/11/initial-report-on-the-new-23andme-for-the-more-advanced-users/ Kitty --------------------------------------------------------------- Kitty Munson Cooper, web developer,programmer, San Diego,CA genetic genealogy blog at http://blog.kittycooper.com/ family history and genealogy at http://kittymunson.com On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:29 PM, P. Paschke via <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > One of the account I manage has switched over to the new 23andMe. ACK! > It is not at all user friendly - nearly impossible to find things. And > everything is so big! No more nice lists. In order to see enough on one > page, I had to adjust my Chrome browser settings to 67%, which then ruined > everything else I viewed in my browser, so I had to switch it back. The > Ancestry Composition no longer allows the chromosome view (the view I > always used and found so useful), but only has a big circle with colors and > the accompanying world map - pretty useless visuals. The list of areas is > still there, but no nice feature to highlight ethnicity locations by > chromosome (I REALLY miss that!). There is no message center with lists - > just large copies of the most recent messages the user has sent -- doesn't > appear to be any sort of in box where you can go to your most recently > received messages. And all I found in the message archives were messages > I sent out. I'm not sure if the messages received are anywhere! > there are some nice features. Information about your match is combined on > one page (with very large type), and it allows you to make notes, which is > nice. Apparently any notes you had previously made are gone. > I did once find the new family inheritance advance page - again, not > condusive to easy comparisons. I left the page and could not find it > again... > Overall, I'd say they tossed the idea that people will be using this site > for genealogical research, communication, and analysis. Just awful, in my > view. I have already been recommending FTDNA if only for the 23andMe price > increase. And now, the unfriendly genealogical interface is one more > reason to recommend testing elsewhere. This should be a great boost to > FTDNA for folks interested in genealogy! > I am SO disappointed! > Pam Paschke > > ------------------------------- > 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

Only one of my three accounts has been converted to the new format, and I'm still not even remotely proficient in using it. However, I noticed two things today that I don't think have been addressed yet in this forum. First, not all features of the site work with Safari on a Mac. When I clicked on Manage Your Connections, I got a box saying "You are seeing this because you are sharing with a family member but have not changed them from Relatives and Friends to their correct relationship (mother, father, etc). Please scroll down and change relatives with green check marks to their desired relationship." Clicking OK in response to this did nothing. There were no names listed, and nothing to scroll through. I tried the same thing with Chrome, and it worked OK. But, although I was then able to link this profile (my daughter-in-law) to her mother, who has her own account, and to my son as "partner," everybody else in her sharing list shows up as "friend". The other choices are "father's father", "father's mother" etc., and brother or sister. There's no option for cousin (as opposed to friend), let alone what I could do in the old version of DNA Relatives to identify a known cousin as "first cousin twice removed" or whatever. Second, while I was still working through Safari, I discovered that a message I sent recently (since this account converted) had lost all its line breaks: "Hi, my name is Elizabeth Harris, and ____ is my son's wife. I'm managing a big project focused on the ancestors of all my grandchildren. Here's your match: _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 162000000 26.9 cM 3226 You also match several other people on the same segment, with whom I'm also sharing: _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 162000000 27.2 cM 3270 _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 159000000 22.1 cM 2452 _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 154000000 15.9 cM 1413 _____ vs. _____ 1 101000000 164000000 49.7 cM 7073 _____vs. _____ 1 118000000 163000000 27.9 cM 3435 I haven't found a common ancestor for any of these yet. ____'s ancestors have been in North Carolina since at least the late 1700s or early 1800s. Most, maybe all of them, came there from England and Scotland. The surnames are listed on my web page: [URL inserted here]l - look at just the names in red There are links to individual web pages for many of these families. Do you see anything that looks like a match to you, either names or ! locations? which should have been "Hi, my name is Elizabeth Harris, and ____ is my son's wife. I'm managing a big project focused on the ancestors of all my grandchildren. Here's your match: _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 162000000 26.9 cM 3226 You also match several other people on the same segment, with whom I'm also sharing: _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 162000000 27.2 cM 3270 and so on. If my recipient received it looking like this, she would have to copy it off and edit it just to make sense of it. When I tried to check this with Chrome, I couldn't find the sent messages at all. Clicking on the circle identifying this particular matching person said there were no messages.

Be sure to submit a big report to 23and me. They do fix problems brought to their attention On Dec 6, 2015 11:08 AM, "Elizabeth Harris via" <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Only one of my three accounts has been converted to the new format, and > I'm still not even remotely proficient in using it. However, I noticed two > things today that I don't think have been addressed yet in this forum. > > First, not all features of the site work with Safari on a Mac. When I > clicked on Manage Your Connections, I got a box saying "You are seeing this > because you are sharing with a family member but have not changed them from > Relatives and Friends to their correct relationship (mother, father, etc). > Please scroll down and change relatives with green check marks to their > desired relationship." Clicking OK in response to this did nothing. There > were no names listed, and nothing to scroll through. > > I tried the same thing with Chrome, and it worked OK. > > But, although I was then able to link this profile (my daughter-in-law) to > her mother, who has her own account, and to my son as "partner," everybody > else in her sharing list shows up as "friend". The other choices are > "father's father", "father's mother" etc., and brother or sister. There's > no option for cousin (as opposed to friend), let alone what I could do in > the old version of DNA Relatives to identify a known cousin as "first > cousin twice removed" or whatever. > > > Second, while I was still working through Safari, I discovered that a > message I sent recently (since this account converted) had lost all its > line breaks: > > "Hi, my name is Elizabeth Harris, and ____ is my son's wife. I'm managing > a big project focused on the ancestors of all my grandchildren. Here's your > match: _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 162000000 26.9 cM > 3226 You also match several other people on the same segment, with whom > I'm also sharing: _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 162000000 27.2 > cM 3270 _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 159000000 22.1 cM > 2452 _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 154000000 15.9 cM 1413 _____ > vs. _____ 1 101000000 164000000 49.7 cM 7073 _____vs. > _____ 1 118000000 163000000 27.9 cM 3435 I haven't > found a common ancestor for any of these yet. ____'s ancestors have been in > North Carolina since at least the late 1700s or early 1800s. Most, maybe > all of them, came there from England and Scotland. The surnames are listed > on my web page: [URL inserted here]l - look at just the names in red There > are links to individual web pages for many of these families. Do you see > anything that looks like a match to you, either names or ! > locations? > > which should have been > > "Hi, my name is Elizabeth Harris, and ____ is my son's wife. I'm managing > a big project focused on the ancestors of all my grandchildren. > > Here's your match: _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 162000000 > 26.9 cM 3226 > > You also match several other people on the same segment, with whom I'm > also sharing: > > _____ vs. _____ 1 118000000 162000000 27.2 cM 3270 > > > and so on. If my recipient received it looking like this, she would have > to copy it off and edit it just to make sense of it. > > > When I tried to check this with Chrome, I couldn't find the sent messages > at all. Clicking on the circle identifying this particular matching person > said there were no messages. > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >