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 On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 9:41 AM, B Griffiths <ibgriffiths@gmail.com> wrote: > The page at this link indicates that there will be a difference > between just participating in DNA Relatives and opting for "Open > Sharing" - the former still requiring an invitation in order to > compare DNA, the latter showing both overlapping DNA and Ancestry > reports, without requiring an individual invitation: > > > https://customercare.23andme.com/hc/en-us/articles/212170838-Privacy-and-display-settings-in-the-new-DNA-Relatives > > Hope that helps > Regards > Barbara Griffiths > > On 13 November 2015 at 13:57, Karla Huebner via > <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > > Andreas, > > > > I'm going from my overall impression of reading several pages worth of > > discussion on a 23andMe forum thread. As I recall, this was where > clicking > > on the link for more information about the change took me, but I couldn't > > say which page of the thread to go to. I read about the first six pages, > > but there are over 30 pages. > > > > Karla > > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:44 PM, ahnen@awest.de <ahnen@awest.de> wrote: > > > > > That would be indeed much different than was mentioned before Karla. Do > > > you have a quote where you read that from? > > > > > > Andreas > > > > > > > On Nov 13, 2015, at 08:41, Karla Huebner via < > genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Thank you, Jamie... sounds as though many of us should just take a > break > > > > from expecting to do much with 23andMe for awhile. > > > > > > > > I did a bit of reading myself trying to catch up on 23andMe's forum > > > > discussion, and my impression, given the many intelligent questions > > > people > > > > had (only some of which were answered), is that there could be a lot > of > > > > complexities unforeseen or unacknowledged by 23andMe. And... the > company > > > > distinguishes between "invitations" and "introductions" in a manner I > > > don't > > > > think the average user (myself included) was aware of or will easily > keep > > > > straight. If I understand correctly, we will still need to invite > people > > > to > > > > share, just that the only people who can be invited will be Public. > > > Earlier > > > > it had been my understanding that all Public profiles would > automatically > > > > share with their matches. (Somebody correct me if I'm wrong!) > > > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Jamie Arnold via < > > > > genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> I don't know how many members are with 23andme or how many members > will > > > be > > > >> in > > > >> each transition batch but it could take up to a couple of months or > more > > > >> for the > > > >> completion of every member to be transferred to the new site. > > > >> > > > >> Regards > > > >> > > > >> Jamie > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Karla Huebner > > calypsospots AT gmail.com > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > -- Karla Huebner calypsospots AT gmail.com