Friday, November 27, 2015

Ancestry DNA Black Friday Discount, USA and UK

30% discount.

Here is the order link for the US:

https://dna.ancestry.com/

Here is the link for the UK:

http://dna.ancestry.co.uk/

Good through 30 November 2015.

Enjoy!

FTDNA discounts through 31 December 2015

Here is a link to the Family Tree DNA  (FTDNA) discounts:

https://www.familytreedna.com/products.aspx

Enjoy!

Monday, November 09, 2015

23andME is changing on the 11th! Do these things to prepare

23andME is changing the way it works on the 11th.

Go to 23andME and login:

If you are set as Anonymous and want to have access to genealogy info, click on you Name ->Edit Profile and set it to a real name and set "Who can see this"to "All 23andme members".

Under "Account Settings", be sure Sharing Options and DNA Relatives are unchecked. Uncheck Health Options if you want to see your medical information.

DNA Relatives:

1) open your PC's browser
2) go to www.23andMe.come and log in
3) navigate through the menus: "Family and Friends" -> DNA Relatives"
4) Click on "Download" under your name
5) A CSV file (for use in a spreadsheet program) of all your matches will download to your computer.
6) Save that file.

1.      Set the matches to 100 per page
2.      Go to "Save Page As . . ."
3.      Save the page in a pre-arranged folder as “Web Page, complete” (for Mac) (or comparable under Windows) with a distinctive filename that works for you, e.g.:    23andMe DNAR MFK (profile’s initials) Page 1.html
4.      Repeat the above as you page forward through your Relative matches.
5. Save each file.

Reinvite close relatives who have not responded to invites

1) open your PC's browser
2) go to www.23andMe.com and log in
3) navigate through the menus: "Family and Friends" -> DNA Relatives"
4) Set to 100 per page
5) select "Sort:relationships" and click on "contact status"
6) page through until you get to "Invitation Sent". If the date is over 30 days ago, click on "Cancel"
and resend.

 OR

Sort DNAR by relationship and go through the first 100 entries and reinvite all who have not responded or accepted the invite but are not sharing and do not have a name.

Sort DNAR by Percent Shared and do the same.

Countries of Ancestry:

1) open your PC's browser
2) go to www.23andMe.come and log in
3) navigate through the menus: "my results -> ancestry overview -> ancestry
tools -> countries of ancestry"
4) select one of your genomes from the "show results for" drop-down menu
5) wait a minute for it to load; ignore the table and graph, and click on
the blue download button underneath the graph
6) repeat steps 4 and 5 for each of "your" known cousin matches.

I would do it for anyone who you known is related to you and for your first 100 matches in DNA Relatives.

Family Inheritance:Advanced:

1) open your PC's browser
2) go to www.23andMe.come and log in
3) navigate through the menus: "my results -> ancestry overview -> ancestry
tools -> Family Inheritance:Advanced"
4) select one of your genomes from the drop-down menu
5) wait a minute for it to load; ignore the table, and click on
the blue words "Download "your name" shared segments"
6) You will get an email from 23andme telling you the file is ready. Click the link in that email.
7) Login to 23andme and the file will download to your browser. Save the file.

Good Luck!