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23andMe Site Makeover – Color That Site! Will Save Your Aching Eyes

April 13th, 2013 | Add a Comment

New 23andMe Home Page Middle 23andMe Site Make Over 23andMe’s new site makeover has given me a headache — literally! After months of negative feedback, 23andMe has gone ahead with it’s ill-thought-out site make over. Not only is this a waste of effort compared to things that have needed fixed for years (Hello — the email system is 98% Neandertal!) but the gleaming white background has made yours truly unable to even fairly review the changes because within minutes my eyes…Read More … Read entire article »

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23andMe Site Redesign – Where Is the Site Search Function?

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Ancestry.com Raw DNA — Hint: Is It Phased!?

Ancestry Raw DNA File shown by Allele Starting today customers of Ancestry.com’s DNA service can download their raw data. As predicted by yours truly, (over the objections of the DNA police) it’s build 37 and Phased! What does this mean to you? Download How To Download Ancestry Raw DNA – Settings Page First, go to your ‘Your DNA Homepage’ on the DNA drop-down at Ancestry.com. Once there, click ‘Manage Test Settings to the right of the orange ‘View Results’ button. Then click,…Read More … Read entire article »

Interesting New Ancestry Cousins This Week

Adelaide Gagnier Overlapping Cousin Trees I’ve been meaning to detail my finds on my blog but haven’t really been doing much of that. Time to start! Chretien and Lebeau I have found two interesting matches at Ancestry this week. One shares the same couple I suspected was the link between myself and another 4-6th cousin. That cousin happily has only 2 of 8 lines — at the second cousin level — which are French or French Canadian one maternal and one paternal. The…Read More … Read entire article »

How to Contact 23andMe Customer Support

23andMe Customer Cares Form 23andMe Changes 23andMe has made their helpdesk almost impossible to contact. You have to search through the site with a fine-toothed comb to find the new “Customer Care” center. Not only that, but you have to fit your request into one of the categories –many problems are NOT covered by a category they have listed and there’s no ‘general’ category. They have made it damn near impossible to contact them and even harder to figure out how to…Read More … Read entire article »

Which Side of My Family Are We Related On?

Human Karyotype: Paired up chromosomes from a human male.   How Do DNA Tests Connect Us? This is one of those questions that come up time and again. So many times we get new matches who think you’re related only on their maternal side of the family at 23andMe (and sometimes at FTDNA). Why is that and what can be done about it? First Results! If you have taken the 23andMe test, the first results you get back are your haplogroup types. Both men…Read More … Read entire article »

23andMe — Best Way to Download Your Ancestry Composition Data!

Ancestry Composition As you no doubt know, 23andMe’s Ancestry Composition tool is interesting and cute but doesn’t give exact end points. There’s been some discussion on the 23andMe boards about downloading Firebug and using it to get your data. That is fine as far as it goes, but I don’t like all the other add ons that Firebug tries to get you to download so I’ve been using this method. I’m sorry I didn’t post about it earlier, sometimes I think…Read More … Read entire article »

Ancesty DNA – Why Low Confidence Matches Matter

Are Very Low Confidence Ancestry Matches Actually Small? Low Confidence Matches Many knowledgeable users at Ancestry.DNA continue to find the low confidence matches to be a wealth of solid cousins. So much so that sometimes most of your hints lie in those deep dark depths at the back of your DNA matches. Up until now, I haven’t put much thought into it just assuming it was the randomness of DNA. But today, I woke up with a better answer and likely…Read More … Read entire article »

New! Two Hints at Ancestry DNA!

Almost all my matches match each other in multiple ways. But I just got a 1 of 2 hints at Ancestry where in the past I’ve always only got one.. and the furthest one at that! A match with 2 hints at Ancestry.com…Read More … Read entire article »

Sales Sales Sales! — Ancestry, AncestryDNA, FTDNA and 23andMe

Sales! There are a lot of reduced prices available for DNA testing and Genealogy but some of them aren’t well advertised. The sale at FTDNA is theoretically over (but still advertised), while the Ancestry.com sales appear in their header and footer areas. 23andMe had an overall price drop that’s spectacular! Ancestry and AncestryDNA Ancestry Membership Sale Through Jan 6, 2012 All sales appear to go through January 6th, 2012. 6 month Ancestry.com memberships are on sale for $49. That’s a great deal at 30%…Read More … Read entire article »

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