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

Linda and List, I opted out all my profiles when I first read the news and saw the price increase. I joined genetic genealogy because of the possibility of braking down a brick wall. Most of the cousins donating their DNA did it for that purpose. When I ask them to do a DNA test, I ask because the person was a direct descendant of a specific ancestor. Because of the nature of big business, I opted out to have time to determine what their purpose was and how it would be used/marketed, and also because the cousins had not given permission. I am not knowledgeable of all the possibilities of the use of a persons DNA and what it might mean to their descendants. When I first test five years ago, I was uneducated about some of the aspects of DNA testing but have a much better understanding of it due to this list and reading and spending hours each day working on 23andme, GEDmatch and FTDNA. Finally, opted out because of the request to do the surveys. I did not have the expertise ro answer them for all my cousins and it was time consuming to get out of them. I can always opt the profile in on an individual basis as permission is given. 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 >