"I don't see why should they care?" Over the years 23andme has operated with various different privacy and consent agreements with their customers. In order to keep using Dna relatives they are probably trying to get people to accept a new privacy / consent agreement. There is possibly from 10% to 25% of the database that are deceased or incapacitated, it could be a way to remove the anonymous ones from your Dna relatives list. RPaine -----Original Message----- From: jlerch1 via Sent: Monday, November 2, 2015 7:42 AM To: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DNA] The axe has fallen I don't see why should they care? RPaine wrote Subject: Re: [DNA] The axe has fallen To: "jlerch1" <jlerch1@lighttube.net>, <genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <0C635AA2662A456599730B35E3D918E0@Viking> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="utf-8"; reply-type=original I suspect that 23andme is trying to separate people who seldom or never sign-in and people who actively use the site. I think they want to move active customers to having their names shown. RPaine -----Original Message----- From: jlerch1 via Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2015 9:34 AM To: genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com Subject: [DNA] The axe has fallen The axe has fallen. There's a banner across (at least some of the accounts) the announcement that Anonymous and nicknamed accounts will be deleted from DNA Relatives list as of 11/11. I wrote on my wife's account: Why delete the Invites? Just add an addendum to the Invites "In order to accept this Invite, you will need to make your profile visible to All [whatever the actual name is]. Hmm what are they doing for the people who are Anonymous who have accepted some Invites but not others. I cannot imagine any rationale which would explain deleting Anonymous matches from some but not all DNA Relatives (and I've read through the explanation. ------------------------------- 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